Latest Scheduled Carrier To Try Northeast Florida Regional Airport

Frontier Airlines says it will expand its low-fare service at Trenton-Mercer Airport (KTTN), in Ewing, N.J., with the addition of nonstop service to Northeast Florida Regional Airport (KSGJ) in St. Augustine, FL. beginning May 2, 2014.

Frontier is the only airline providing scheduled service out of Trenton-Mercer Airport, the gateway to New Jersey’s state capital, all of central New Jersey, and Southeast Pennsylvania, including metro Philadelphia.

Frontier said in a news release that it will be the only airline to provide service to the St. Augustine airport, “a convenient alternative to larger, more expensive airports in the region.”

Frontier will be the first scheduled air carrier to operate in St. Augustine since Skybus, which pulled out of the airport in 2008 citing rising fuel costs after less than a year of operation, according to a report in the St. Augustine Record. Additions to the airport for scheduled service were made for Skybus at a cost of about $2.3 million, with the state of Florida paying half that cost. The Northeast Florida Regional Airport hopes to recoup some of that investment with Frontier.

Local officials estimate that the scheduled air service could add as much as $10 million annually to the region's tourism economy.

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