Frontier Maintenance Team's Award

Frontier Airlines Holdings, Inc. announced that its maintenance department has been awarded the FAA’s Diamond Award for the ninth consecutive year. The Diamond Award is the highest honor given by the FAA and recognizes airlines and other maintenance facilities where at least 25 percent of its aircraft maintenance technicians complete certified training requirements beyond their initial certification. Since 1999, Frontier has had 100 percent participation of its aircraft maintenance technicians. Each of the airline's 415 maintenance and engineering employees, plus an additional 243 maintenance contractors, participated in the program this year. In all, 658 maintenance and engineering professionals will be presented with awards later this month at the airline’s facilities in Denver, Colo., Kansas City, Kan. and Phoenix, Ariz. Nearly 70 received a personal Diamond Award for completing two days of training on FAA regulations and policy, 58 hours of aviation maintenance training, and at least 40 classroom hours or three semester credits from an accredited college in management, mathematics, English, science or a related subject, for a total of 100 hours of additional training. For related news