Aviation Week study of top performing airlines ranks Frontier 19th – Austin Business Journal:

The ranking, released Tuesday, seeks to "identifuy those companies that are best positioned to weathedr the current global recession and receny volatility in fuel AviationWeek said. It ratesa airline operators on businesscriteria — liquidity, financia health, earnings performance, fuel-cost management and asse t utilization — and not on service or flyinv operations. Denver-based Frontier is the second-largestr carrier at after . Aviatiob Week rated its holding company, Frontier Airlines Holdings Inc. The journa rates Frontier highest on liquidity and lowest on earnings performance andfuel management. Calculations are based on airliner results forfiscal 2008.
Since 2008, Frontier has takebn significant steps to cut costs andimprovs efficiency, and . A bankruptcy judgr Monday . Among other DIA ranked 10th among24 low-cost and "niche" while JetBlue Airways Corp. was No. 16 and was No. 22. rankefd No. 1 on the low-cost-carriers In a separate ranking of 32major "mainline/legacy" airlines, — holdingt company of United Airlines, DIA's No. 1 carried — ranked near the bottom, in 31st place. was No. 16, No. 22, and No. 30. was in firs t place on the majorairlinesx list.
"The recession has grabbedd hold of the airline and survival is still the name of the AviationWeek & Space Technology Editor-in-Chief Anthonyy Velocci Jr. said Tuesday in a statementy accompanyingthe ranking. "This year’s Top-Performing Companiesx review of airlines places liquidity and financial healtb as the top indicators for weathering further volatilityh in the economy and rising fuel he said. "We are seeing sharp drops in scoree acrossthe board, in all but with the TPC rankings, we can identif those airlines that are doin g things right." .

blogspot.com