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The Offer
- Frontier is offering the all you can fly GoWild! Pass for free for the first month. You do need to pay a $49 enrollment fee
Our Verdict
Might be useful for some people, just keep in mind this enrolls you in auto renewal.
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Apparently this is not Frontier internet.
Sounds like they’re also getting sued for charging $100 for passenger’s bags… Let’s see how many passes they have to sell to cover their legal fees
Insults and jokes aside, I’ll remind everyone that this just covers the fare, not the taxes. I don’t mind Frontier, but all the Frontier flights I’ve flown lately (where I found it worth enduring the à la carte nature and other risks well documented on this site) have had a $0.01 fare, and the entire cost is listed as taxes. So my understanding is that for any flight under $75 or so, which probably also make up the majority of the flights that will this pass will be eligible for, you are only saving a penny.
you aren’t charged their bs ‘CIC’ fee when you have the gowild, so the fees are actually only 5.60/11.20 for most flights. sometimes a bit more for certain airports and + taxes but not as terrible as initially thought.
Good to know, thanks. So not quite as scammy as the terms could by cynically read. Still seems hardly worth the effort, since you’ll likely need refundable award tickets on a legacy carrier booked to control for any non-Wild availability.
Frontier GWP only allows you to book the day before travel for domestic flights (& 10 days for international). Taxes $15 for direct/nonstops, $25 for any connections. Limited schedule. Their website is terrible & customer service is nonexistent. So, buyer beware (to the max). This is essentially Frontier trying another way of squeezing any revenue out by selling as many of these GWP (annual, then seasonal & now monthly) for any last minute leftover empty seats. Brilliant for them; terrible for us, suckers, getting sucked in, as the more GWP passholders there are, less the number of possible flights anyone will be able to book. (plus all caveats of all the fees for everything: seat selection, getting a customer svc rep at airport help you, of course any carryon bags (apart from the tiny personal item etc)… Friends don’t want friends to get screwed, hence the red flag warning….
Go Mild. Who cares
Can you book a return flight with it or is it only a one way flight????
One way at a time, subject to last minute availability only… $15 fee for direct & $25 for any connections, so not exactly ‘free’….
I guess you can cancel prior to the fee hitting, but how useless is this:
“GoWild! Pass™ tickets become available for booking the day before flight departure for domestic travel and ten (10) days before flight departure for international travel.”
That isn’t “go wild.” That is “go insane.” I’d never book in this manner.
Exactly. GWP is awesome for frontier, terrible for us consumers…
This is great deal if you don’t mind flying space-A from tiny local airports for a month while carrying on nothing but the clothes on your back.
?? They operate at most of the largest airports in the country.
Sure, they fly to a handful of small airports, but it’s far from the bulk of their service.
you’ll never find “gowild” availability from any even mildly busy airport. it’s basically a $50 scam.
Frontier’s whole business model is based on scams.
I know someone who’s got the pass who’s been flying in/out of LAS and DEN hubs, as well as through them the past month (so peak travel season) to LAS, SEA, PHL, MKE (during oshkosh). They’re not flights I would choose, esp given some of the long layovers, but if one’s flexible availability isn’t terrible, especially if you have free standby/same day changes with the middle tier status match.
What is the status match you are referring to? Pls elaborate (although very hesitant with anything frontier). Thx
I see doc has written about it again, so here: https://www.doctorofcredit.com/frontier-status-match-get-matched-from-45-loyalty-porgrams-99-149-fee/
Tiny seems like an exaggeration, but I see a lot of allegiant flights going to secondary and “smaller” airports. I.e. Sanford as an alternative to Orlando and Clearwater / St Petersburg as an Alternative to Tampa.
Since I’m near a small airport that they fly to Florida from I have also thought of them as an airline that uses smaller airports where available. Not sure how accurate that is.
Admittedly I do not fly allegiant since I can book Southwest early for a good price and get free bags even if it involves a little more driving.
Didn’t we decide that unless you’re like a hobo grandparent that this is just so implausible to be worth it to not bother?
DoC is so strapped for content on Fridays that it’s either this or something deeply politically divisive like chicken sandwiches and beer. To be honest, I prefer posts like these that get <10 comments.
I’m a Hamptons / South Beach hobo (Islip to FFL). Cheap way to commute and if there’s no space today I’ll just fly tomorrow
I identify as a hobo grandparent to be worth it to not bother