Transportation

Five even more annoying ways Frontier Airlines could charge its customers

RTD: Meet the three men running against Westword cover girl Claudia Folska

Claudia Folska's resume is impressive. In college, she started a nonprofit. After graduate school, she biked from Pakistan to China. This past spring, she earned a dual doctorate from the University of Colorado. And best of all, she once groped Arnold Schwarzenegger -- a feat she jokes that she coul ... More >>

Denver's streetcar routes are retraced by the Rail~Volutionaries

To the stroller-pushing mommies and patio-side drinkers who lined West 32nd Avenue on Sunday afternoon, it probably looked like just another Cruiser ride, as thirty folks on bikes trekked up the Highland hills in Sunday's 100-degree heat. Yet this sweaty mass, organized by the Denver New Rail~Volu ... More >>

Reader: Union Station light-rail plaza isn't the only one that could spur development

Last week, Chris Utterback took readers on a photo tour of Union Station -- one that focused on the facility's future and the just-opened Light Rail Plaza. The subject of light rail inspired one reader to argue that this particular station isn't the only one on the line that offers opportunities.

Photos: Union Station tour digs dirt on transit hub, light rail

On Saturday, city planner, urban explorer and overseer of the DenverInfill blog Ken Schroeppel took a handful of Denverites on a tour of Union Station to discuss the just-opened Light Rail Plaza and the station's future. Here's an inside look at the project.

"Don't touch my junk:" John Tyner fights the law and the law wins

​The Bill of Rights guarantees many protections: Protection of free speech, protection from self-incrimination, protection from undue government imposition in private affairs. Perhaps it was that last one that got misinterpreted by a California man who told a Transportation Security Administra ... More >>

United-Continental merger shouldn't push back already delayed contract talks, says union rep

Photo courtesy Association of Flight Attendants-CWAUnited employees protesting stalled contract talks at DIA last month.​The merger of United and Continental is potentially blockbuster news, admits Ken Kyle, local counsel president for the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA -- but only poten ... More >>

DIA Dreams: Aviation director Kim Day plans to take DIA where no airport has gone before

What lies ahead for the Union Station project

Frontier rep: 140 jobs leaving Denver is actually good news for employees

Some Denver jobs are flying to Indianapolis.​Word that 140 Frontier Airlines jobs will be relocating from Denver to Indianapolis, headquarters of Republic Airways Holdings, which bested Southwest in its quest for the carrier back in October, has been seen as a bummer in these parts. But Fronti ... More >>

Hundreds of Frontier Airlines jobs flying away from Denver: Read John Hickenlooper's statement

​ Signs that Republic Airways Holdings, owner of Denver-based Frontier Airlines, might move jobs from Colorado to either Milwaukee or Indianapolis have been unavoidable for at least month. Note this October 9 blog, in which Denver Economic Development Corporation executive director Tom Clark s ... More >>

Southwest lets Frontier know it's not flying away

​When Southwest Airlines made its run at purchasing Frontier Airlines this past month, a number of industry observers speculated that it was doing so because Frontier was kicking its ass in Denver. But just because Southwest eventually lost out to underdog Republic Airways Holdings in the Fron ... More >>

The risks of Republic Airways Holdings' Frontier purchase

An image from Republic Airways Holdings' website.​A Wall Street Journal article published in the wake of Republic Airways Holdings' surprising victory over Southwest in the Frontier Airlines sweepstakes may temper the enthusiasm with which most locals viewed this unexpected turn. "Commuter Air ... More >>

Southwest post-game remarks about losing Frontier

​Moments ago, Southwest Airlines released a statement about what everyone else had already figured out -- that Southwest's massive bid for Frontier Airlines had fallen apart at the last minute over an inability to get Frontier pilots to concede on seniority-oriented contract issues. In the do ... More >>

Republic Airways Holdings lays low in Frontier sweepstakes

An image from the Republic Airways Holdings website.​Tomorrow's the day when Frontier Airlines hits the auction block, and in recent days, Southwest Airlines, one of two publicly announced suitors, has gotten the vast majority of attention due to the size of its bid: $170 million, nearly $60 m ... More >>

Cinco de Mayo 2009: Good luck crossing Federal this weekend

A Flickr photo Your calendar may tell you that May 5th has already happened -- but your calendar is lying to you. This weekend will mark the real Cinco de Mayo celebration, with much of the activity taking place, as usual, on Federal Boulevard. The Denver Police Department has a three-part plan to ... More >>

From the week of February 26, 2009

Will the proposed Jefferson Parkway toll road take Colorado commuters for a ride?

Szele just can't straighten up and fly right

Dear United Airlines: It's Over!

Shmuck of the Week

Cool People Do Like Denver. Take That, Seattle!

Ride the Line

Art-on-the-Line offers a behind-the-scenes look at light rail public art.

Bob Briggs Is Off the Train

Rail Roaded

Finding a solution to I-70 traffic has been one long, strange trip. But the end could be in sight.

Light Up

Making tracks to suburbia.

End of the Line

For decades, folks along Highway 40 left the driving to Greyhound. Now they've been left behind.

I Fathered a Terror Suspect

Losing the name game at our country's airports.

Follow That Story

The Gropes of Wrath

Off Limits

Heaving on a jet plane

Follow that story

US West deregulation issues; War between union and steel mill rages on

Company Town

In Pueblo, the iron will of a union has proved tougher than steel.

Love, Jack

Are the McCroskey memos scurrilous screeds or stifled dissent?

What's Fare Is Fair

Denver and United Airlines are in a dogfight over who gets the loot.

No Labor Lost

Ellen Golombek plays rough with the Capitol bosses.

Letters

Get Stuffed

Soar Loser?

Western Pacific's losses mount as boss man Ed Beauvais scrambles with new plans.

Excess Baggage

The checkered past of Jet Aspen's CEO prompts regulators to put the new airline in a holding pattern.

THE DIA UNDERGROUND

TUNNELING INTO THE DEEPEST SECRETS OF THE AIRPORT'S CURSED BAGGAGE SYSTEM.

RUNAWAY TRAIN

RUNAWAY TRAINCONGRESS SPURNED IT, STATE LAWMAKERS SCORN IT, BUT CAN ANYBODY PUT THE BRAKES ON LIGHT RAIL?

I'M ED! FLY ME!

COLORADO SPRINGS BOOSTERS GO UP, UP AND AWAY WITH ED BEAUVAIS.HIGH FLYER HOW MUCH OF A FLIGHT RISK IS WESTERN PACIFIC'S ED BEAUVAIS? JUST ASK THE INVESTORS IN HIS LAST AIRLINE.

FLIGHT RISK

GUESS WHICH LITTLE AIRLINE IS BACK SNIFFING AT THE PUBLIC TROUGH.

STOP THAT TRAIN!

A GROUP OF LIGHT-RAIL SKEPTICS GETS READY TO COME ON BOARD AT RTD.

OFF LIMITS

OFF TRACK

THE AIR TRAIN TO DIA GETS STUCK IN POLITICAL TRAFFIC.

LOAN SHARKS

MALL ABOARD!

STAID OLD UNION STATION FINDS ITSELF IN THE SWIRL OF LODO DEVELOPMENT SCHEMES.

Small Craft Warnings

Regional airports had high hopes when DIA said it wasn't interested in private avaiation. But guess what? DIA changed its mind. Again. Gorilla tactics as dia makes a grab for private planes, regional airports bail out of their expansion plans.