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OBSERVER: Tourism Minister Charles Fernandez has confirmed that budget carrier Frontier Airlines will be suspending its route to Antigua for the next couple of months.<\/p>

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\u201cFrontier Airlines notified us that they would be pulling their aircraft from Orlando to Antigua from the 5th<\/sup>\u00a0of September, [and] we are told that they\u2019re going to resume in November.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of the reasons that they gave us is the fact that they\u2019re [facing a] shortage of crew, and as a result of that, they have to tighten up and a number of places would be affected,\u201d Fernandez told Observer yesterday.<\/p>

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The US-based airline, marketed as a low-cost carrier, began flights from Orlando to Antigua back in December last year, after reportedly being in negotiations for nearly two years.<\/p>

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And the inaugural flight into the VC Bird International Airport received a lot of publicity, as its co-pilot Aron Simon and one of its flight attendants were nationals of Antigua and Barbuda.<\/p>\n

According to announcements back then, the airline was meant to operate once-weekly direct flights to Antigua from Orlando every Saturday, but passengers will soon have to make alternate travel arrangements.<\/p>

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This disappointment, Fernandez said, will hopefully not last for too long, and he added that the relationship between Frontier and Antigua and Barbuda could be in line for a boost when things eventually pick back up.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are hoping that they can come back in November and we are hoping that they may even be in a position to offer more flights, because from what we have gleaned from them, the Antigua route has been successful for them,\u201d he explained.<\/p>

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The Tourism Minister also rebuffed claims that the airline has some sort of issue with the island, asserting that the temporary pull-out has more to do with logistics.<\/p>

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\u201cI\u2019ve spoken to people right at the top and that is not true. I know that there is a great demand, even in the US, for travel and so they would have to cut a number of places.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Caribbean, and Antigua in particular now, has been known to have weak summers \u2026 September is normally a pretty slow month because of the hurricane season.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo, I think that that would be one of the areas that they would look at \u2026 and if there\u2019s a shortage of aircraft, naturally, they would want to go where they think they can benefit the most,\u201d Fernandez added.<\/p>\n

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