Trenton to Orlando Frontier Airlines

[CSpork]

Has anyone traveled from Trenton Airport via Frontier Airlines? We live very close to TTN but have never flown out of there, pricing for Frontier usually winds up higher than Southwest. Flights may be more cost effective if we don't have to pay an additional $100 each per person. My questions is, when flying out of Trenton is the flight that full that I should worry about my wife and I sitting next to each other? The airport is small, thinking it will not be a full flight??

 

[Star wars fanatic]

I’ve heard a lot of bad things about frontier airlines in general so I can’t really speak from a personal experience

 

[Gary2T]

I flew Trenton to Raleigh-Durham on Frontier in December of 2019. The airport is very small. There are two "gates" which share an exit door to the outside where you board the aircraft via stairs or ramp. The gates share a waiting area that takes up about 80% of the lower level. Security and an airside bar take up the other space. Baggage claim is in what was once a mobile-trailer type building. Similar to offices at a construction site. There are parking lots right outside the terminal, but depending on how busy they are they might be filled. In that case they have overflow parking further down the road in a big grassy (muddy) field. A shuttle runs back between.

When we flew out the close parking lots were full, and the field was 75%+ full. There were two planes worth of people in the waiting area, so it too was crowded. We were a party of 4 (2 adults, 2 children 8 & 11), and did not purchase pre-assigned seats. I just checked in online as soon as check-in was open. We were auto assigned seats near the back of the plane. 3 seats together, and 1 across the aisle. ie. Row ## A, B, C and D. On the way back to Trenton, we were assigned same row again, but C, D, E and F. I've read if you check in as soon as possible, you have a better chance of having seats assigned together. It worked out for us, but we were prepared to be somewhat separated.

The bigger concern is what happens if your scheduled flight gets cancelled. Depending on how many flights out of Trenton there are per day and how full your flights was, getting booked onto another flight in a reasonable amount of time could be challenging.

 

[Dis703]

Between myself and my boyfriend (he lives in FL and I'm in NJ) we fly Frontier TTN-MCO or reverse pretty frequently. I just did this trip less than 2 weeks ago myself. The flight down was pretty much full, but the return flight was maybe only 2/3 full if that. Both flights they were allowing people to move who wanted to. Same for my bf's recent flights.

I have flown with my children and entire family of 5 a number of times with them and we've always been seated together, as have most people we've talked to who use them. I normally just make sure to check in right at the 24 hour mark and it hasn't been an issue yet.

However, just a tip, you can still select seats after check in. So if you are split up and want to move and pay you have the option of going back in and paying for seats. We've done it once in a while when we got stuck with a middle seat now and then, but how I have elite status so I don't have to pay for seats anymore.

 

[CSpork]

I flew Trenton to Raleigh-Durham on Frontier in December of 2019. The airport is very small. There are two "gates" which share an exit door to the outside where you board the aircraft via stairs or ramp. The gates share a waiting area that takes up about 80% of the lower level. Security and an airside bar take up the other space. Baggage claim is in what was once a mobile-trailer type building. Similar to offices at a construction site. There are parking lots right outside the terminal, but depending on how busy they are they might be filled. In that case they have overflow parking further down the road in a big grassy (muddy) field. A shuttle runs back between.

When we flew out the close parking lots were full, and the field was 75%+ full. There were two planes worth of people in the waiting area, so it too was crowded. We were a party of 4 (2 adults, 2 children 8 & 11), and did not purchase pre-assigned seats. I just checked in online as soon as check-in was open. We were auto assigned seats near the back of the plane. 3 seats together, and 1 across the aisle. ie. Row ## A, B, C and D. On the way back to Trenton, we were assigned same row again, but C, D, E and F. I've read if you check in as soon as possible, you have a better chance of having seats assigned together. It worked out for us, but we were prepared to be somewhat separated.

The bigger concern is what happens if your scheduled flight gets cancelled. Depending on how many flights out of Trenton there are per day and how full your flights was, getting booked onto another flight in a reasonable amount of time could be challenging.

Thanks for the information! We are going back and forth about Price: Frontier & AA, SW is High. Frontier out of TTL is way easier but it looks like AA will be less expensive when you take all aspects into account (It is my DW and my 25th Anniversary Trip, want to sit together and I don't think we will be able to share 1 piece of luggage! HAHAHAHA!).

 

[KristaZ]

I haven't flown out of TTN, but I just flew Frontier from Hartford, CT last week - my husband and I actually were split (which even confused the gate agent since we were booked in the same itinerary). They changed our seats so we were together without a problem (or fee). As someone else said, they also allowed anyone who wanted to move to an open seat to do so since the plane was only about half full.