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Frontier Airlines debuts plane with 30% lighter seats to save fuel

By Kaelan Deese
Published March 25, 2021 3:49pm ET
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Frontier Airlines debuts plane with 30% lighter seats to save fuel
In this photograph taken late Monday, Feb. 8, 2016, a Frontier Airlines plane heads to a runway at Denver International Airport. | (David Zalubowski/AP)

Frontier Airlines debuted its latest Airbus A320neo plane on Tuesday, sporting seats 30% lighter to aid in fuel efficiency and further its mission as “America’s Greenest Airline.”

The company announced in a readout on March 23 that the new airbus made its first commercial flight from Orlando International Airport in Florida to Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey.

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