It may not be the most sustainable idea Frontier Airlines ever had, but it sounds enticing to have the freedom to fly wherever you want this summer for a flat fee, as reported by Travel Pulse. Just don’t tell Greta Thunberg. That price of $399 per person lets you fly endlessly between May 2 and Sept. 30. It’s called the GoWild! All-you-can-fly pass and even includes international destinations in Mexico, the Caribbean and Latin America.
So there are, of course at that price, a few conditions, and they’re pretty intense. If you fly domestically on this pass, you can only book and confirm the day before departure. So if you’re booking a hotel or Airbnb on the other end, you’ll have to make sure things are flexible in case the flight is full and you can’t get on it. Also: prepare to tell your boss you actually can work tomorrow? If you are flying internationally, you book and confirm 10 days beforehand. We won’t even talk about the mathematical configurations required for the return trip since these are one-way flights.
So, how do you make it happen? Buy the pass, and when you're ready to book your travel, log into your Frontier Miles account, reserve a flight and pay a single penny for the airfare, plus taxes, fees and extras—and you can customize your travel by paying extra for bags, leg room, etc., if you wish. Frontier cautions that taxes for domestic travel begin around $15 and can exceed $100 for international.
You’ll want to know that in case things go south, Frontier stopped offering live phone call customer support in November. Looks like they may be passing some of the cost benefit from that decision on to travelers… so long as things go smoothly!
If the summer pass doesn’t provide enough time for you to jet around, the annual pass costs $1,299 and gives you a full year of unlimited travel, starting May 2. These two passes are currently priced at lower introductory rates; the summer pass will jump to $999 and the annual pass to $1,999. The passes are first-come, first-served.
There are some black-out dates, so the annual pass doesn’t cover Thanksgiving or December holiday travel: for 2023, they are May 25, 26, 29; June 29, 30; July 1-5, 8, 9; August 31; September 1, 4; October 5, 6, 9; November 18, 22, 24-27; December 16, 17, 22-24, 26-31.
And just in case you’re wondering (who wouldn’t?), these flights don’t let you accrue miles or status, but they do extend the expiration date of miles you’ve already earned.