Frontier Airlines hiring hints at IPO

Frontier Airlines is on the hunt for the kind of accounting skills more commonly found at public companies. The airline lists openings for a senior manager of financial reporting and technical accounting on its website, along with corporate financial analysts and a senior accountant with experience in Sarbanes-Oxley. A Frontier spokesman declined to comment on ongoing reports that the company was planning an IPO and whether the new hires might be related to that. But an aviation industry consultant, said it makes sense for Frontier to pursue an IPO — even if the company isn’t quite ready to go public about going public. Bloomberg reported in early March that Indigo Partners, the private equity firm that owns Frontier, had hired Barclays, Deutsche Bank and J.P. Morgan Chase in connection with an IPO. <br/>