New low-cost flight added at local airport

Frontier Airlines has added another low-cost flight destination to the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky Airport.

The low-cost carrier launched nonstop service to San Jose, California — bringing the total destination served from CVG to 20, the airline announced. The new route will be served with Airbus A320 aircraft.

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The low-cost carrier also added new to service to Austin, Jacksonville, Miami, San Antonio and Raleigh from Cincinnati earlier this summer. The airline will offer fares as low as $39 on flyfrontier.com. Tickets are already on sale for Miami, Austin and Raleigh. Tickets to Jacksonville will go on sale soon, and flights start in spring 2018.

“The new San Jose route, and othe rdestination recen annoucned, are important to our tri-state region becuase it provides even greater access to the east and west coasts and Texas,” said Candace McGraw, chief executive officer of CVG.

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Cincinnati’s airport also announced earlier this summer that WOW air will add services — bringing discount, international flights to travelers in Southwest Ohio. Service from Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky will be available four days a week, the airport announced on Wednesday morning. Flights to Keflavik International Airport are available from $99 one-way including taxes. Fares to WOW air’s additional locations from Cincinnati, such as London, Paris, Amsterdam, Berlin, Frankfurt, Dublin, Copenhagen and more, start at $149.

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