Frontier Airlines upgrade guarantees empty middle seat

Frontier Airlines passengers will have the opportunity to get all the room they may want on flights, but it will come at a price.

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The discount airline is rolling out its UpFront Plus seating option, ensuring that no one will sit in the dreaded middle seat. The upgrade is limited to the first two rows of the plane and will cost $49 per flight and per passenger for travel between April 10 and April 30. The upgrade has to be purchased by March 20, Fox Business reported.

UpFront Plus seats will also have four to five inches of extra legroom compared to other seats on the same flight, CNBC reported.

While the initial cost may be a bargain for some flyers, travel blog The Points Guy reported that once it is out of the introductory period, the airline will use a dynamic pricing model for the upgrade, meaning that the price will vary by flight. For example, the website’s writers said that UpFront Plus seats on a trip from Atlanta to Tampa will cost $146 on top of Frontier’s base fare of $158.

UpFront Plus seats can be reserved on the airline’s app or website. It joins three other seating options: standard, preferred (standard seats at the front of the plane) and premium (with extra legroom), according to The Points Guy.

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