Nashville adds nonstop flights to Orlando, Chicago, Philadelphia

This is the first new air service announcement for 2016, after 12 new flights were added in 2015. The airplane pilot treated his passengers to the pizza after they were diverted.

Frontier Airlines is adding six new non-stop routes between Orlando International Airport and several destinations across the country.

And the introductory price is $29 (one way), you’ll have to buy a ticket before 11:59 p.m. on January 17, for a flight through that date and August 15.

Flights between St. Augustine and Chicago will operate on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays while flights to Philadelphia will operate on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays.

Starting April 4, the airline will offer flights to Philadelphia, Phoenix, Portland, San Francisco and Los Angeles. On the Milwaukee-Dallas-Fort Worth route, Frontier will compete with American to Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport and Southwest, which flies to Dallas Love Field.

It’s about $20 less for frequent Frontier flyers who use the airline’s Discount Dent Service and $119 for one-way flights. Delta also started non-stop daily service to Seattle last month as the competition heats up with the Alaska Airlines group for business in the Northwest.

Frontier makes clear it is going after a different kind of customer than the high-spending corporate travelers most coveted by airlines like Delta.

While Frontier operated 16 routes from Atlanta during the busy travel season previous year, it now operates just five: to Denver, Washington Dulles, Las Vegas, New York LaGuardia and Miami.