The Frontier Airlines GoWild all-you-can-fly pass has been floating around for a while, but with a stronger route network and a surprisingly low price, it suddenly looks far more practical than I expected.
Frontier Airlines GoWild Pass: All-You-Can-Fly For $349
Frontier’s route map has matured in a way that actually works quite well for me. The airline serves:
- Los Angeles (LAX)
- Burbank (BUR)
- Denver (DEN)
- Chicago (ORD)
- New York (JFK)
- Pittsburgh (PIT)
These are the cities I will most likely fly to the most often in the next year.
My own experience with Frontier Airlines has not been bad at all, even if my wife and kids had a less stellar experience. Frontier also offers a status match I could take advantage of and will begin installing Wi Fi onboard, two things that would make the experience much more bearable.
GoWild All-You-Can-Fly Annual Pass Details
Here is how the GoWild pass works:
- The pass costs 349 dollars for the current sale period (must purchase by December 2, 2025)
- Travel is valid from seven days after purchase through April 2027
- Each flight booked costs 0.01 dollars plus government taxes and fees
- Domestic flights can be booked one day before departure
- International flights can be booked ten days before departure
- Blackout dates apply on peak travel periods and some holidays (it’s quite a long list, actually…see below)
- Passengers must still pay for optional services like seat assignments, carry on bags, checked bags, and priority boarding
- Flights credited toward the pass do not earn Frontier Miles or count toward elite status
- Travel is always subject to availability and there is no last-seat guarantee
A one-way ticket on American Airlines or United Airlines between Chicago and Los Angeles is 444 USD if purchased less than a week before travel.
Buying these passes for the entire family strikes me as a very reasonable way to travel between the city pairs above for a relatively modest price. Even if I use the pass 10-12 times over the next year and a half, it seems that it would easily pay for itself.
Blackout Dates
Here are the blackout dates for 2026 and 2027 (subject to change):
- 2026: January 1, 3-4, 15-16, 19; February 12-13, 16; March 13-15, 20-22, 27-29; April 3-6, 10-12; May 21-22, 25; June 25-28; July 2-6; September 3-4, 7; October 8-9, 11-12; November 24-25, 28-30; December 19-31.
- 2027: January 1-3, 14-15, 18; February 11-12, 15; March 12-14, 20-21, 26-29; April 2-4.
Not horrible, actually…
Why I’m Still Skeptical
For anyone who has used this pass in the past, what worries me most is this caveat:
- Seats available to passholders are capacity controlled, limited in quantity, and offered on a first come, first served basis while supplies last.
Will this be like trying to secure a saver-level award seat?
If I want to fly from Los Angeles to Pittsburgh via Denver, will I find that plenty of seats are for sale yet none are available to GoWild passholders because the required fare class is unavailable? I would not even mind traveling on a true standby basis, similar to airline employees, since the no-show factor is real. The question is whether that is possible.
If this pass functions like a hard capacity-controlled award ticket with unpredictable availability, the value disappears quickly, and what looks like a great deal becomes much less appealing (dare I say, fraudulent).
CONCLUSION
The Frontier GoWild pass is priced attractively and pairs well with a route map that now aligns with my own likely travel patterns. The question is whether the capacity controls make it usable in practice. If passholders can reliably clear seats on less busy flights, the value is substantial. If availability becomes a guessing game, the savings may not be worth the uncertainty.
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Is there any way you can ask Frontier these questions?
Indeed, I will try.
Better yet, find (hopefully) honest reviews from those who have used it for the Pro’s and Con’s.
For you though why not just do it and do stories on the results? Should easily pay for itself, especially if you find it near worthless because we all know negative stories get better clicks.
Frontier is getting rid of the JFK to Los Angeles, Las Vegas and Tampa in January. Not sure if those routes are returning or not. You never know with Frontier.
Passholder here, got it in during September but missed the cheap gold status. I figured I had to use it 3x through May 2027 for the business case to work. Maybe it’s 4x now that it is slightly more expensive. Availability from a major market like LAX is much better than hunting saver J award seats. For a family it’s how willing are you to have them change plans the day before you’re set to fly.
Positives:
-You’re smart, you understand how systems work. You’ll figure it out pretty quick. Have realistic expectations
-Having two potential origins is helpful, but I would focus on the destinations you can get non-stop to from LAX.
-See F9 as a bonus…I trust you have enough mileage currencies that you can book refundable award tickets that if F9’s opens up GoWild availability, great, if not, you fly as scheduled.
Things to be aware of:
-It is not last seat availability or anything close to it.
-F9 currently flies out of the 200 gates at TBIT which is less than pleasant.
-It’s much easier to grab the seats at 12:01a if you’re a night owl vs a morning person at 6am.
-Right now there is not a gold status match, only a platinum challenge. I did not view the platinum status challenge as viable for me.
-Elite status penetration is currently low. If you get gold, you will have a very good shot at their F/preferred seats and it alleviates the baggage concerns.
-The $15 is per segment. A connecting flight is $25-30, depending if you have to pay TSA twice. INTL flights (which will require a DEN connection) do have significant taxes on them.
-F9 is willing to sell some painful connections. (Think AA Award tickets). Great if you want to overnight at the airport in LAS/DEN or stay at one of their cheap Hyatts. I don’t think their schedules at LAS/DEN are banked.
-There’s a post on FT that guesses at how to forecast availability based on fare bucket availability. My limited experience contradicts the post. Still might be worth reading. How good EF data is for F9 is suspect. I’ve read it has to do with which GDS F9 uses.
-Naturally, the poorly timed flights have the lowest loads and thus more likely to have $15 availability.
-Sometimes F9 will sell slightly discounted tickets outside the 1 day window to passholders. One example I see for next week is 20% off. Feels like it happens when RM is trying to pull forward some revenue.
-F9 really really pulled back it’s schedule on Oct 1st (end of summer). It’s been harder to use since simply because of reduced schedules.
I live in DEN, so having the GWP has been great and I’ve been able to use it a lot without much issue. I’d say it’s a lot harder to justify if you have to connect on every flight. Availability can be a crapshoot, and I have no data points on what it’s like booking multiple tickets. Just because a flight is open for early booking doesn’t necessarily mean that it will become a $16 flight the day before. You pretty much have to set an alarm for midnight; I once lost my flight because I waited until 00:15 to book.