Denver-based Frontier Airlines will base its new turboprop subsidiary, Lynx Aviation, in Westminster.
Known to customers as FrontierExpress, the subsidiary was formed earlier this year. Its headquarters will occupy space at 1765 W. 121st Ave. between Tejon and Pecos streets.
Frontier Airlines Holdings Inc. in September announced it is buying 10 74-seat Bombardier Q400 turboprop planes worth $256.8 million. Lynx, a wholly owned subsidiary, will fly those planes to as many as 18 destinations in Colorado and the Rocky Mountains. The planes will enable Frontier to serve places such as Aspen and Jackson Hole, Wyo.
Lynx has about 20 startup employees and is headed by Tom Nunn, who was Frontier’s vice president of aviation safety and security.
“These are all kind of the critical positions,” said Frontier spokesman Joe Hodas. “We’ll increase it as we continue to grow.”
The operation will create 300 to 400 new jobs by the end of 2007, according to Frontier. Many of those jobs will not be at headquarters; crew members and others will work at the airport.
Hodas said it is not a problem that the Lynx headquarters will be separated from Frontier’s headquarters on Tower Road near Peña Boulevard, which is closer to the airport. Frontier has been running out of space at that site.
Staff writer Kelly Yamanouchi can be reached at 303-954-1488 or kyamanouchi@denverpost.com.
