Frontier Airlines suspending flights from Mobile’s downtown airport

Frontier Airlines announced Monday it was making a “difficult decision” to suspend all operations at the Downtown Mobile Airport in April based “on a lack of sufficient demand to support the service,” a company spokeswoman said. “We greatly appreciate and support the partnership we have received from the airport and community in bringing service to Mobile and will continue to evaluate the potential for future opportunities,” said a spokeswoman at Frontier. Frontier is the only airline providing flights from the brand-new passenger terminal at the Downtown Mobile Airport that is located within the Brookley Aeroplex south of downtown Mobile. The $8m terminal, finance through the Airport Authority’s cash reserves and opened on May 1, is named “Terminal One” and is situated inside a 50,000-square-foot building that partially serves as an Airbus logistics center. The Mobile Airport Authority said the Frontier service will end on April 22, and likely would not return to Mobile any sooner than 2021. <br/>