AUSTIN (KXAN) — Frontier Airlines will launch two new nonstop routes from Austin in May, the airline announced Tuesday.
Flights to Miami and Philadelphia are set to begin May 22. Each route will be served three times per week.
“Just in time for Texas consumers to begin planning their summer 2025 travel, we are thrilled to once again grow our service at AUS with the addition of ultra-low fare flight options to two of the nation’s top metropolitan destinations,” said Josh Flyr, Frontier’s vice president of network and operations design.
The Austin-Miami route is currently served by both American Airlines and Southwest Airlines, while the AUS-Philadelphia route is served by American.
Miami and Philadelphia are the fifth and sixth new routes for Frontier from AUS this year. The airline will begin nonstop service to Chicago O’Hare and Orlando on March 6, as well as Cincinnati and Phoenix on March 7. Frontier already flies nonstop from Austin to Atlanta, Cleveland, Denver and Las Vegas.
In 2024, Frontier more than doubled its passenger total at AUS from the previous year, carrying almost 225,000 passengers in and out of Austin. The total was the highest since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, but still only about a quarter of the number seen in 2019.
Last year, 1.03% of passengers at AUS flew on a Frontier flight, up from 0.46% in 2023, but down from 5.12% in 2019.
