Low-cost carrier Frontier Airlines has added flights along two new nonstop routes from San Antonio to Washington D.C. and the Los Angeles area, the company announced Tuesday.

Starting in October, Frontier will fly passengers direct to Dulles International Airport in Washington D.C. and Ontario International Airport east of Los Angeles, Frontier Airlines spokesman Richard Oliver said in a phone interview. Introductory fares start at $49 and the flights are scheduled to run four times a week, year-round.

“These new direct flights represent our community's collective efforts to enhance our connectivity with other markets,” Jenna Saucedo-Herrera, San Antonio Economic Development Foundation CEO, said in a news release. “They will improve our ease of doing business and stoke the momentum that the San Antonio economy is feeling right now.”

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Frontier Airlines now operates 13 flights out of the San Antonio International Airport. The Denver-based company announced in July it would launch three nonstop, year-round routes to New Orleans, Phoenix and San Diego in October and three nonstop seasonal routes in spring 2018 to Cincinnati, Orlando and San Jose.

Frontier returned to the San Antonio market in May 2016 with a direct flight to Philadelphia and routes to Atlanta, Denver and Las Vegas after pulling all of its routes from the city in 2012. The airline launched a nonstop flight from San Antonio to Chicago O’Hare International Airport in April.

The San Antonio International Airport currently operates 37 nonstop routes to destinations in the U.S. and Mexico, according to its website.

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