Frontier Airlines offers all-you-can-fly passes: Are they worth it?

Few things get frequent flyers more excited than an all-you-can-fly pass. In theory, it’s the holy grail of a travel buffet of flight options.

For the last year or so, Frontier Airlines has offered a variety of all-you-can-fly passes — some that feel vaguely similar to a subscription model for air travel.

There are seasonal passes, monthly passes (that sometimes offer the first month free, excluding the enrollment fee) and an annual all-you-can-fly pass.

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Here’s what you need to know about Frontier’s all-you-can-fly passes, including the 2024-25 annual pass.

Monthly Frontier GoWild! Pass

Frontier’s monthly pass allows customers to commit to travel windows 30 days at a time.

There’s an enrollment fee of $99 for the first month, but otherwise a $0 introduction fee.

After the first month, customers pay $149 monthly for unlimited travel for 30 days from the date of purchase. At the end of 30 days, the pass will automatically renew unless canceled. The booking rules match those for other passes (can be confirmed the day before a domestic flight or 10 days before an international one), and it will cost $0.01 in airfare plus taxes and fees. Fees for bags and seat assignments are extra, adding costs for anyone not traveling light.

Monthly: $99 enrollment fee for the first month, then $149 for 30 days
Valid for travel during a 30-day period from the date of purchase

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As long as you trust yourself to cancel in time to not be charged for a month of flying you don’t want (before midnight MST on the final valid date of travel on the pass), this may be the best way to try out Frontier’s subscription model for discounted flying.

Frontier all-you-can-fly pass pricing

There are two other versions of Frontier’s GoWild! Pass — an annual pass and a fall and winter pass. Historically, Frontier offered introductory pricing for a limited time after launching new versions of the all-you-can-fly pass. After the first year or season(s), the pass will automatically renew at the regular (much higher) price unless you cancel.

Here are the current prices and dates of use for all passes:

Annual GoWild! Pass

$599 for the first year
Valid for travel between May 1, 2024, and April 30, 2025

Fall & Winter GoWild! Pass

Currently priced at $699 and obviously the worst of the three deals at present
Valid for travel between Sept. 2, 2023, and Feb. 29, 2024

Monthly GoWild! Pass

Limited-time offer: $149 per month, with the first month free (excluding the $99 enrollment fee)
Valid for travel for 30 days

TPG’s Kristy Tolley had a Summer Pass in 2023. In her experience, once you pay for the pass itself, it’ll still cost you some cash each time you use it for flights at a rate starting at $13 to $15 per domestic nonstop flight; connecting itineraries cost upward of $30, and international trips go as high as $150 per round trip.

You are also charged if you need a full-size carry-on, checked bags or advance seat assignments — just as you are on typical Frontier flights. The trick here is to try to get Frontier elite status to avoid some of those fees. You can get it through spending on its credit card or a status match with other travel cards. Then, use those status benefits to get complimentary advance seat assignments or free bags when flying on this pass,

Where you can fly with the Frontier GoWild! pass

Frontier’s all-you-can-fly pass is valid on flights to Frontier’s domestic and international destinations. This opens the doors to the airline’s routes that touch Mexico, the Caribbean and Latin America.

The booking window technically opens one day before travel for domestic flights using the GoWild! Pass and 10 days before departure for international travel. However, in our tests, some flights have been available further in advance.

You can view Frontier’s route map here.

Frontier GoWild! blackout dates

There are blackout dates when you cannot use your all-you-can-fly pass. These are the 2024 and 2025 blackout dates:

Jan. 1 and 15, 2024
Feb. 15, 16 and 19, 2024
March 3, 10, 15-17, 22-24 and 29-31, 2024
April 5-7 and 12-14, 2024
May 23-24 and 27, 2024
June 27-29, 2024
July 5 and 7, 2024
Aug. 29-30, 2024
Sept. 2, 2024
Oct. 10-11 and 13-14, 2024
Nov. 23, 27 and 30, 2024
Dec. 1-2, 21-24 and 26-31, 2024
Jan. 1, 4-5, 16-17 and 20, 2025
Feb. 13-14 and 17, 2025
March 14-16, 21-23 and 28-30, 2025
April 4-6, 11-13 and 18-21, 2025.

Dates from May 2025 onward are not yet available. Note that the number of blackout dates appears to be growing over time. For example, in January 2024, there are two blackout dates, but in January 2025, there are six. In April 2024, there are six blackout dates and in April 2025, there are nine.

How to use the Frontier flight pass

After you purchase the pass, you’ll search and book your flights on Frontier’s website. Unfortunately, there’s a pretty hefty catch: You won’t be guaranteed to be able to use the Frontier GoWild! Pass for domestic travel until the day before travel.

However, for international travel, the terms state that you can book and confirm travel 10 days in advance. This is obviously much easier to plan for than just the one-day notice on domestic trips.

In either case, the terms say that flights are subject to availability and that “last seat availability is not guaranteed.”

While flights on the pass will qualify as activity in your Frontier frequent flyer account to extend the life of your miles, the flights on the pass will not earn miles or count toward earning Frontier elite status.

Is the pass available to kids?

The Frontier GoWild! Pass is available to travelers of all ages; only travelers 18 years or older can purchase the pass and passholders under the age of 13 must be enrolled by their parent or legal guardian. When traveling, passholders under the age of 15 must be accompanied by a passenger at least 15 years of age.

Is the Frontier pass a good deal?

The idea of an all-you-can-fly pass is borderline intoxicating for travelers.

Unfortunately, it might only be a good deal if you don’t regularly spend a lot on bags or seat assignments and are content to not have confirmed flight plans until just one day before travel (or 10 days when traveling internationally). Not to mention, you will still owe taxes and fees.

If you are going to get the pass, I highly recommend you also secure Frontier elite status to mitigate those fees. You can get status via the cobranded Frontier credit card, and there’s also often a way to match or buy into Frontier status.

Frontier frequently has sales that tip to $19 or $29 each way. This could make more sense than paying $14-plus for taxes and fees for each use, in addition to the hundreds of dollars you spend to purchase the pass.

Additionally, as the number of blackout dates grows, the utility of the pass decreases.

Bottom line

There’s an undeniable allure to knowing you can fly as much as you want for a fixed time at a fixed price, and we love the ingenuity put into these passes.

Frontier’s GoWild! Pass could be a great match for someone who has the freedom to go where the wind — and seat availability — takes them. It would also be good for someone weho has elite status that mitigates many of the incidental fees (or is OK avoiding them on their own).

But there are catches — many catches — and exactly how much this pass will cost you depends on your travel dates and flight routes. Also, if the blackout date trend increases, the pass will have less and less value for most travelers.

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