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On April 20, Fron­tier Air­lines will op­er­ate its last flight out of T&T. The Den­ver-based ul­tra low-cost car­ri­er will end ser­vice be­tween Trinidad and its Puer­to Ri­co hub, nine months af­ter launch­ing the route.

In a state­ment to Guardian Me­dia, Rob Har­ris, Fron­tier Air­lines’ cor­po­rate com­mu­ni­ca­tions man­ag­er said, “We pe­ri­od­i­cal­ly re­view and up­date our routes based on de­mand, sea­son­al­i­ty, and oth­er fac­tors”. Har­ris did not rule out the pos­si­bil­i­ty of the air­line re­turn­ing to T&T say­ing, Fron­tier “will con­tin­ue to eval­u­ate a po­ten­tial re­turn in the fu­ture”. The Air­port’s Au­thor­i­ty of Trinidad and To­ba­go al­so con­firmed it will “con­tin­ue to work to­geth­er with Fron­tier Air­lines,” in a state­ment to the news­pa­per.

Ac­cord­ing to well-placed avi­a­tion sources with knowl­edge of the sit­u­a­tion, the coun­try’s on­go­ing for­eign ex­change chal­lenges played a role in Fron­tier’s de­ci­sion to ex­it the mar­ket.