Empty middle seats, more legroom

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Empty middle seats, more legroom

A Frontier Airlines plane lands at the McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas on Thursday, Feb. 27, 2020. 

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First class on Frontier? Not quite. But the budget airline on Tuesday launched a new add-on to get more room at the front of its tightly-packed planes — with no middle seat neighbor.

On flights starting April 10, Frontier will offer UpFront Plus in the first two rows of its Airbus planes, where it will block the ***** of the middle seat. Those seats will also include four to five inches more legroom compared with most of the seats on the planes, an airline spokeswoman said.

Prices start at $49, for bookings made by March 20 for flights between April 10 and April 30, but the spokeswoman said the seat option “is not intended as a limited time offer.”

Airlines from budget carriers like Spirit and Frontier to behemoths like Delta, ******* and ********* have looked for ways to segment their cabins, sell higher-priced products to customers, or add fees for advance seat selection.

Fellow budget airline Spirit offers the “Big Front Seat” in its Airbus cabins. The new Frontier option isn’t a new seat, but is instead spaced differently than most of the plane.

Fees are especially key for budget airlines, which charge more for everything from seat selection to carry-on bags on top of the base fare. Frontier brought in $42 per passenger on average last year from airfare, down 22% from 2022, while non-fare revenue rose 1% to almost $74.

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