Frontier Airlines rescinds "COVID recovery charge" less than a month after it was implemented

Frontier Airlines is revoking its "COVID recovery charge" after less than a month, the discount carrier said on Wednesday.

Denver-based Frontier had added a $1.59 per passenger, per one-way-flight fee in May to offset costs including additional sanitation and cleaning on its aircraft and at the airport. The now-revoked surcharge was included in Frontier's total promoted fare rather than an add-on fee, the airline said. The fee "was meant to provide transparency and delineate what portion of the fare was going toward Covid-related business recovery, including repayment of a CARES Act loan from the U.S. Government," a Frontier spokesperson stated in an email to CBS MoneyWatch.