has announced plans to outsource the jobs of a total of 700 employees nationwide working at all of the carrier鈥檚 locations excluding . The Colorado-based company reports the cuts are aimed at keeping cost low.
The new round of layoffs will affect gate, ticket counter and ramp employees at 28 locations. According to , about 60 percent of Frontier鈥檚 airport stations are currently staffed by employees from other companies.
The layoffs come about a month after Frontier announced it will be canceling all flights from the to the Denver International Airport because of a reduced fleet of smaller regional jets. The flights will stop in early March.
