If being a parent wasn't hard enough already, the challenge of flying with a young kid for the first time can ensure that even super-parents have their work cut out for them.
Even if a kid handles the initial weird feelings during takeoff and the ear discomfort is fine, there's still the matter of getting them to sit still for several hours in a cramped, flying tube.
The only thing I can think of that would make the experience better would involve supersonic flight or... money.
According to USA Today, this offer comes as part of their Discount Den program, so signing up for that is needed to take advantage of it.
Yes, there are a handful of conditions, but the offer is completely legitimate. Let's go through the conditions.
As CBS Denver reported, one kid flies free for every adult ticket purchased.
So if two parents bring four kids along, two of them will fly for free.
According to Frontier's website, the dates when kids can fly free are as follows:
February - 12, 13, 19, 20, 26, 27
March - 5, 6, 12, 13, 19, 20, 26, 27
April - 2, 3, 9, 10, 16, 17, 23, 24, 30
May - 1, 4, 7, 8, 11, 14, 15, 18, 21, 22, 29
June - 1, 4, 5, 8, 11, 12, 18, 19, 25, 26
July - 9, 15, 16, 22, 23, 29, 30
August - 5, 6
Note that they're also subject to change.
That means that any travel "add-ons" like bags and specific seat selections aren't part of it and do cost money as usual.
As CBS Denver reported, it only works if you book your flight on Frontier's website and it can't be retroactively applied to any previous bookings.
Also, changing your flight after the first booking also makes the promotion stop applying to it.
At this point, it's no secret that the offer applies to select flights, but it should be made clear that it also only works for domestic flights.
If the kids are trying to get to Paris, they're not getting there for free.
As amusing as it might be for the kids to get free first class seats by the time they're old enough to buy their own tickets, that's not really how it works.
Since they can potentially take advantage of this for up to 15 years, I suppose it makes sense that there would be so many restrictions.
If there is a chance even a small percentage of those fees are cut, parents will show up.
h/t: CBS Denver
