{"id":367054,"date":"2026-02-12T17:56:23","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T07:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/frontier-airlines-downsize-fleet-returning-aircraft-deferring-deliveries-2031\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T17:56:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T07:56:23","slug":"frontier-airlines-to-downsize-fleet-by-returning-aircraft-deferring-deliveries-to-2031","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=367054","title":{"rendered":"Frontier Airlines To Downsize Fleet By Returning Aircraft &amp; Deferring Deliveries To 2031"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ultra-low-cost carrier <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"255967\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/frontier-airlines\/\"  >Frontier Airlines<\/a><\/span> appears not to be immune to the pressures facing budget carriers in the <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"128663\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/united-states\/\"  >United States<\/a><\/span>, with the recent news that the Denver-based airline will look to return, defer, and delay several aircraft to help support the iconic airline&#8217;s bottom line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frontier Airlines faces financial pressures, with the Denver-based airline set to return 24 leased A320neos and defer 69 aircraft deliveries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,476,710,413,615,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-367054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-fleet-size","category-frontier-airlines","category-ultra-low-cost-carrier","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=367054"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":367101,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367054\/revisions\/367101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=367054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=367054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=367054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}