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Frontier Airlines was a United States local service carrier, a scheduled airline that was formed by the merger of Arizona Airways, Challenger Airlines, and Monarch Air Lines on June 1, 1950. Headquartered at the now-closed Stapleton International Airport in Denver , Colorado , the airline ceased operations on August 24, 1986.
Pages in category "Airlines established in 1950" ... Frontier Airlines (1950–1986) Frontier Flying Service; G. ... This page was last edited on 5 May 2019, ...
A Frontier Boeing 737-300 in the original 1994 livery. Frontier retired its last 737 in 2005.. Frontier Airlines was created by Frederick W. "Rick" Brown (a United Airlines pilot), his wife Janice Brown, and Bob Schulman, the latter two having worked at the original Frontier Airlines (1950–1986). [22]
Frontier Airlines predecessor Challenger Airlines served Riverton in the 1940s. [9] In 1979 Frontier Boeing 737-200s began serving the airport, along with Convair 580s. [10] Frontier 737s flew direct to Denver via Casper; [11] by 1985 Frontier had left the airport. [12] Frontier was the only airline that flew mainline jets to the airport.
In 1967 Central merged into Frontier Airlines which retained its routes from Amarillo. [14] Frontier Airlines (1950–1986) began Amarillo service upon merging with Central Airlines in 1967 and retaining that carriers routes. Service was scaled back over the next few years and by 1974 Frontier was only operating a Denver-Colorado Springs-Pueblo ...
During the 1950s and 1960s and what many consider the “Golden Age” of air travel, flight attendants became a coveted, well-respected, and glamorous profession.
A Frontier Airlines plane caught fire upon landing in Las Vegas in October. 19 people on the aircraft are now suing the ... Photos and video of the incident show smoke and flames coming from the ...
On December 21, 1967, Frontier Airlines (1950-1986) Flight 2610, a Douglas C-47 converted to carry cargo, crashed after takeoff due to the failure of the crew to perform a pre-takeoff control check resulting in takeoff with the elevators immobilized by a control batten. Both occupants were killed.