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Discount Frontier Airlines adds nonstop flight from DFW Airport to JFK

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Low fare carrier Frontier Airlines is launching three new routes from New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) in spring 2025 including one to Dallas Fort Worth International Airport.

On April 22, nonstop service to Dallas Fort Worth International Airport (DFW) will begin, operating four times per week. Which days, they do not say, and getting a response from anyone at Frontier is a challenge.

They're also launching daily nonstop service to Miami International Airport beginning March 30, and daily nonstop service to Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) on May 1.

This barely offsets a recent reduction of Frontier flights out of DFW to Jacksonville, Omaha, Nashville, Pittsburgh, Sacramento, St. Louis, San Juan, Puerto Rico, Atlanta, Cleveland, and Raleigh-Durham.

Frontier currently flies from DFW to LaGuardia in New York.

These new routes are less about DFW and more about Frontier building up its presence at JFK, where they began operating in June 2024.

They'll introduce the Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) flights starting at $29. But nothing is free, and before you buy a ticket, it's worth visiting their Facebook page, an absolute house of pain with one complaint after another. The turnovere rate for their social media staff has to be pretty high, because that is one bleak job.

Frontier Airlines recently ushered in something called ‘The New Frontier’ which they claim has more transparency through upfront pricing and a range of options to meet various budgets, with no change or cancellation fees, longer flight credit windows, and more enhancements to come including First Class seating which they'll debut in late 2025.

However, going back to that Facebook page, you'll see comments about people getting charged for changes and cancellations, so who knows whether the airline's policy is confusing or if it's user error.

They currently offer UpFront Plus, a new seating option in the first two rows of the aircraft which they say has extra leg and elbow room, plus a guaranteed empty middle seat. No clue on the pricing, since getting anyone from their media department to respond is no more effective than getting anyone in customer service to respond.

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BBQ NEWS

Hard Eight BBQ chain to open first location outside of North Texas

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Hard Eight BBQ is opening its first San Antonio joint.

Popular chain Hard Eight BBQ is exporting its smoked meats and sandwiches to San Antonio, marking the restaurant's first location outside of North Texas.

Hard Eight BBQ is set to open at The Rim retail development, at 17907 IH-10 W. in San Antonio, later this year.

Hard Eight, H8 for short, is based in Stephenville and has four additional locations across the Dallas-Fort Worth: in Coppell, The Colony, Roanoke, and Burleson. It’s the type of neighborhood restaurant locals take out-of-towners to, with a large cafeteria-style line. It reportedly doesn’t cook everything according to time-honored techniques, but it does give a taste of Texana.

The owners have been teasing the joint in a series of social media videos, but have kept quiet on the timeline. Now, new Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation (TDLR) filings say the 17,300-square-foot restaurant aims to finish construction by November.

H8 sells all the Texas barbecue classics including brisket, sausage, and ribs, but the smoked meats menu goes well beyond with shrimp poppers, sirloin, ham, pork chops, and even thick-sliced bologna available by the pound and in sandwiches.

The restaurant brings the same range to the sides. Although smoke shack favorites like macaroni ‘n’ cheese, slaw, potato salad, and pinto beans are on the slate, the barbecue joint also dishes out more newfangled dishes like jalapeño cream corn and sweet potato fries. There’s not much in the way of green vegetables, but diners can order a garden salad if they insist.

Cofounder Chad Decker, with wife Carie and in-laws Vicki and Phillip Nivens, first opened Hard Eight in 2003 in a former Stephenville filling station. His approach to barbecue was formed during his childhood in Llano, he says, where he was exposed to Hill Country methods and traditional German pits.

Although the quartet had zero experience in running restaurants, they slowly built the concept into a mini-empire through trial and error.

So far, H8 hasn’t shared an opening timeline, but its most recent Reel suggests some construction is already taking place. A request for more accurate timeline information was not immediately returned.

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