Airlines Frontier made a blow Southwest Airlines“Plan to start invoice assignments for seats and check the luggage by doing the opposite.
Frontier Budget Carrier said that customers can receive a package that includes a seat assignment and hand baggage without overload if they book on Tuesday until March 24 for the trip until August 18. The promotion applies for non -stop trips reserved on the website or the Frontier application.
For flights from May 28 to August 18, Frontier said he would include a free checkered bag.
The change occurs a week after Southwest shocked customers announcing, from May 28, he will get rid of his longtime policy to allow customers to check two bags for free. Southwest was an aberrant value with this policy among the airlines, and the leaders had repeatedly said that they had not planned to change it.
“We have always had heart,” CEO Barry Biffle said in a statement, an apparent blow to his rival. Southwest, whose original airport is Dallas Love Field, has a motif of love and clashes as part of its brand and its stock ticker is LUV. “Some airlines are moving away from what travelers love, but we run there. Consider this as the ultimate of the old divorce company. If travelers show us love, we will make these advantages permanent.”
Frontier and Bellow Discount Airline Spirit Airlines offered pricing packages and relaxed by some of their stricter policies, such as change costs, to attract more customers. Meanwhile, the biggest carriers as Delta,, American,, United And more recently, the Southwest, has adopted à la carte tickets and without frills tickets that budgetary carriers have been offering for a long time.
Last week, the leaders of United, Delta and Spirit said that Southwest’s policy changes could be good for their carriers. Airlines are also struggling with a recent drop in domestic travel demand that has weighed on first quarter estimates.
Southwest did not immediately comment on the new promotion of Frontier.