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The Grand Junction Regional Airport âis always seeking to cultivate and grow relationships with airlines,â its executive director, Angela Padalecki, says.
That includes exploring opportunities for bringing new airlines to town, or for airlines with local service to add routes and flights.
It also can involve the airport providing incentives for airlines to provide new services â just so long as the airport makes the same incentives available to other airlines. And in the meantime, a relatively new outside entity known as the Grand Junction Regional Air Service Alliance can work independently to also offer inducements to airlines to get them to broaden what air travel is available locally.
More than a year into this whole pandemic thing, the air-travel industry is moving past the worst of the impacts of the public largely staying home, and looking at how to best cater to the shifting motivations people have these days for wanting to fly.
Those are trends playing out at the Grand Junction Regional Airport as it welcomes new airlines and flights following some dark days in 2020 and looks to a summer that may be busier than ever thanks in part to a pent-up desire by many to fly. At the same time, questions remain about what lingering negative impacts COVID-19 may have on the industry, including locally at the airport.
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For a short time, direct flights between Grand Junction and Denver even disappeared thanks to COVID-19.
Fast forward to today, and the outlook for the facility is looking far rosier, in part thanks to the announcement by Frontier Airlines Tuesday that it will again provide service out of Grand Junction, with nonstop flights to Denver to be offered starting in June.
Denver-based Frontier will begin service three times a week between Grand Junction Regional Airport and Denver International Airport June 8, with introductory fares as low as $19, it said in a news release.
Frontier also is beginning nonstop service between Durango and Denver four times a week in June, and announced new nonstop service between Denver and Anchorage, Alaska, and between Denver and Kalispell, Montana.