Aviation Week study of top performing airlines ranks Frontier 19th - Dayton Business Journal:

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The ranking, released Tuesday, seeke to "identify those companies that are best positionedr to weather the current global recessiom and recent volatility in fuel AviationWeek said. It rates airline operators on businesscriteria -- financial health, earnings performance, fuel-cost management and asset utilizatiom -- and not on servicd or flying operations. Denver-based Frontier is the second-larges t carrier at after . Aviation Week rated its holding company, Frontied Airlines Holdings Inc. The journalk rates Frontier highest on liquidity and lowest on earnings performance andfuel management. Calculations are based on airline results forfiscal 2008.
Since 2008, Frontier has takehn significant steps to cut costs andimprove efficiency, and . A bankruptct judge Monday . Among other DIA carriers, rankecd 10th among 24 low-cost and "niche" while JetBlue Airways Corp. was No. 16 and was No. 22. rankes No. 1 on the low-cost-carriers In a separate ranking of 32major airlines, -- holding company of United Airlines, DIA'zs No. 1 carrier -- ranked near the in 31st place. was No. 16, No. 22, and No. 30. was in firsr place on the majorairline list. "The recession has grabbexd hold of theairline industry, and survival is still the name of the Aviation Week & Space Technolog y Editor-in-Chief Anthony Velocci Jr.
said Tuesdayu in a statement accompanyingthe "This year’s Top-Performing Companies review of airlinez places liquidity and financiao health as the top indicators for weatherinfg further volatility in the economy and rising fuel he said. "We are seeing sharpo drops in scores acrossthe board, in all but with the TPC rankings, we can identify thosre airlines that are doing things right." .