drgnfly30
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I know a few of you were interested in flying Frontier out of the newly established routes out of Wilmington DE (New Castle County Airport - ILG). I wanted to post a 'review' now that I've completed my trip! 
I loved the fact that it was a mere 5 miles or so from my house, we parked right out front (no parking fees $!!), we weren't checking bags so walked right up to the kiosks & printed our boarding passes, & proceeded to walk the 20 or so feet to the security line.
My carry on bag got pulled, the TSA person (who was a real treat > insert sarcasim) practically yelled at me to NOT TOUCH THE BAG & stand AWAY from the table as she proceeded to pull EVERYTHING out of it. She then rescanned my bag & the now separated cosmetic etc bags that I had so carefully packed... 3x. She finally found a tiny pair of nail clippers that I have been traveling with in my carry on bags since 2002, by tiny I mean like baby clippers. She informed me that I could take them back to my car & come back through security. I said you can toss them... she repeated "YOU CAN TAKE THEM TO YOUR CAR AND COME BACK THROUGH".. I repeated.. "NO THANKS! YOU CAN TOSS THEM".... She did so and then rescanned my bags AGAIN, leaving me to repack everything including putting the items back into my Space Bags right there on the spot. Not fun.
I'm only pointing this experience out because I saw them do this probably 4-5 bags while I was standing there.. I've been through large Int'l Airports on MULTIPLE trips and have NEVER seen them pull that many bags in those security lines! Clearly they have alot of time to thoroughly screen those bags.. not to mention her attitude & tone was over the top.
Upon the boarding announcement we walked outside, down the sidewalk & up the ramp to the plane, they were boarding both from the front & rear doors so that made it quicker.. good thing because we flew out on 8/13 about 10 mins before torrental rain & tornado warnings started. We were delayed about 30 mins until the tornado warnings subsided.
Take off was quick since we (obviously) were the only flight out ! No waiting to taxi or waiting on the tarmac etc...
The Direct TV was on the entire flight down (they never made us pay or turned it off) not sure if that was a mistake or not... because on the flight back they did turn it off after take off & to make you pay.
Seemed that the beverage/snack service took then entire flight to get down the plane & hit every aisle, probably because they had to process the credit card payment for every transaction!
Arriving back in Delaware was also a breeze, again we didn't check bags so we didn't have to wait... that was a good thing because the baggage claim area is a hallway w/out an actual carousel but an area about 8 feet long where they put the bags through a window from the outside.. I could see that getting very crowded very fast! We went to the car parked right out front & were home in a matter of minutes!
Overall, I would definately look to use Frontier out of ILG again! Just remember not to pack those tiny nail clippers!
LMK if there's anything specific you'd like answered!
I loved the fact that it was a mere 5 miles or so from my house, we parked right out front (no parking fees $!!), we weren't checking bags so walked right up to the kiosks & printed our boarding passes, & proceeded to walk the 20 or so feet to the security line.
My carry on bag got pulled, the TSA person (who was a real treat > insert sarcasim) practically yelled at me to NOT TOUCH THE BAG & stand AWAY from the table as she proceeded to pull EVERYTHING out of it. She then rescanned my bag & the now separated cosmetic etc bags that I had so carefully packed... 3x. She finally found a tiny pair of nail clippers that I have been traveling with in my carry on bags since 2002, by tiny I mean like baby clippers. She informed me that I could take them back to my car & come back through security. I said you can toss them... she repeated "YOU CAN TAKE THEM TO YOUR CAR AND COME BACK THROUGH".. I repeated.. "NO THANKS! YOU CAN TOSS THEM".... She did so and then rescanned my bags AGAIN, leaving me to repack everything including putting the items back into my Space Bags right there on the spot. Not fun.
I'm only pointing this experience out because I saw them do this probably 4-5 bags while I was standing there.. I've been through large Int'l Airports on MULTIPLE trips and have NEVER seen them pull that many bags in those security lines! Clearly they have alot of time to thoroughly screen those bags.. not to mention her attitude & tone was over the top.
Upon the boarding announcement we walked outside, down the sidewalk & up the ramp to the plane, they were boarding both from the front & rear doors so that made it quicker.. good thing because we flew out on 8/13 about 10 mins before torrental rain & tornado warnings started. We were delayed about 30 mins until the tornado warnings subsided.
Take off was quick since we (obviously) were the only flight out ! No waiting to taxi or waiting on the tarmac etc...
The Direct TV was on the entire flight down (they never made us pay or turned it off) not sure if that was a mistake or not... because on the flight back they did turn it off after take off & to make you pay.
Seemed that the beverage/snack service took then entire flight to get down the plane & hit every aisle, probably because they had to process the credit card payment for every transaction!
Arriving back in Delaware was also a breeze, again we didn't check bags so we didn't have to wait... that was a good thing because the baggage claim area is a hallway w/out an actual carousel but an area about 8 feet long where they put the bags through a window from the outside.. I could see that getting very crowded very fast! We went to the car parked right out front & were home in a matter of minutes!
Overall, I would definately look to use Frontier out of ILG again! Just remember not to pack those tiny nail clippers!
LMK if there's anything specific you'd like answered!
!!!
I can't believe I searched and found the specific info to DelaWHERE!
If you could, please PM me! I would greatly appreciate it. Hope to hear from you soon!
