Somewhere around month two, every passholder has the same realization: nothing says a trip has to be out-and-back. The network is a web, you have unlimited flights, and each hop costs about $15. Congratulations, you've invented hub hopping, the pass's endgame content.
The shape of a multi-city trip
A real example of the pattern: Cleveland to Denver on Monday, Denver to Las Vegas on Wednesday, Vegas to Phoenix Friday, Phoenix home on Sunday. Four flights, roughly $60 in taxes total, three cities in a week. The same itinerary as cash fares would run several hundred dollars minimum.
The trick is that every leg runs through cities with lots of Frontier service. Chain hubs and big stations together, per the best airports post, and there's nearly always a next hop available somewhere interesting.
The rolling booking method
You can't book the whole chain upfront with standard windows, and that's fine. The method:
- Book leg one via the normal midnight window.
- Each night of the trip, check the next day's options from wherever you are and book the best one.
- Hold your return date as the one fixed point, and make sure the cities you drift toward have solid service back home. If home is a smaller station, keep one hub between you and home at all times.
When the direct flight is gone
Chains break. The Vegas to home nonstop you were counting on fills up, and the airline's site just shrugs. This is the exact situation the WildFares Route Builder was built for: it stitches separate GoWild legs into a workable path (say, SJU to Orlando to Houston to home), flags the self-transfer points, and prices the whole chain. You book each leg on the airline's site like normal.
Hotels and the art of loose plans
Same philosophy as flights: refundable or last-minute. Same-day hotel rates in business cities (Denver, Phoenix, Atlanta) are often shockingly good on weekends when the business travelers go home. The multi-city passholder's stack is a confirmed flight, a refundable room, and no strong opinions about Thursday.
When to use the 10 day international window as an anchor
A slick variation: anchor the trip with an international leg booked 10 days out, per the international guide, then improvise domestic hops on either side of it. The international leg gives the trip a spine and a story; the domestic legs give it texture. San Juan in the middle of a week of hopping is a very good time.
The caveat: chains multiply the chance that one leg has thin availability, so every multi-city trip needs a "or we stay an extra day, fine" attitude. If that sentence sounds like a threat, stick to out-and-backs. If it sounds like a feature, you're built for this.
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