Frontier Airlines have issued a report that shows they have managed to make total operating profit of $1.5 millions last month. The Denver based company has been working hard to try and get themselves out of bankruptcy.

On Tuesday they showed that February was the forth connective month that the company has been in profit, Sean Manke, Frontier Airlines President said ‘February is always a tough month for airlines, but despite the reduced traffic, the 28 day month and the hard hitting recession, we have managed to restructure our business which has allowed up to produce positive results’.

The $1.5 million that was made in February goes along side the $2.8 million made it January, the $18.3 million in December and the $2.9 million made in November. These profit margins have enabled Frontier Airline move closer and closer to getting out of bankruptcy.

Manke is now speaking with potential investors in an attempt to find the finance to get the company out of bankruptcy by the end of the year.

Travel agents, tour operators and airline bosses are urging Labour to abolish the flight tax, this is so that families that are being hit by the recession can pay for flights and holidays without the extra cost of extra taxes.

Labour’s idea is to hike up air passenger duty to up to £170 on some long haul flights, but travel chiefs are saying that no-one can afford the extra taxes. The recession has hit the travel industry and this new taxes will be another blow to the industry.

One of the hardest hit destinations are the Caribbean, over 750,000 Brits visit this beautiful destination every year. The current passenger duty is £40 but will rise to £60 in November, then a year later rise to £75. From November 1^st anyone flying in anything above economy class, so first, business or premium economy will have to pay a massive duty of around £150 each flight to the Caribbean.

To travel to Peru, Australia or New Zealand in non-economy class, the duty would be a full £170. Travel experts have said that the new duty fees are to discriminate passengers flying to certain destinations, they back up this claim by stating that to travel to anywhere in the United States, which is over 5,300 miles, will only cost £45 in duty fees. However to travel to the Caribbean, which is less then 4,300 miles, will cost passengers £60 duty fee.

The new system is supposed to help reduce carbon emissions, and passengers taking longer flights should be subjected to a greater duty fee then shorted flights. But this is not the case, instead some destinations that are further away have less fees added on then closer ones. This undermines the whole concept of the system, and the travel industry want it abolished.