Women sue Frontier Airlines over sex assaults by passengers

DENVER — Two ladies who assert they had been sexually assaulted by passengers on Frontier Airways flights sued the Denver-basically based mostly budget carrier for allegedly refusing to again them and either now not having or failing to follow insurance policies to answer to assaults.

The class circulation lawsuit used to be filed Dec. 16 by two Denver residents and used to be first reported by The Denver Put up on Tuesday. The Associated Press doesn’t on the entire name other folks who had been sexually assaulted.

One lady mentioned she used to be sexually assaulted by a man on a flight from Denver to Providence on or about Oct. 20, 2018 and used to be now not allowed to commerce her seat afterward while the a entire lot of mentioned she used to be sexually assaulted by a man on a Denver to Florida flight on or about Nov. 30, 2018. Both assert they reported the assaults to flight attendants, who did now not file them to someone else and did now not request that legislation enforcement meet the planes.

Frontier spokeswoman Jennifer F. de la Cruz mentioned she could perhaps well now not touch upon pending litigation nonetheless additionally mentioned “the protection of our passengers and crew contributors is our no 1 priority at Frontier Airways and we fetch now strict insurance policies in do to proactively and accurately respond to reports of misconduct and alleged crimes.”

The lawsuit seeks to signify any a entire lot of passengers who had been sexually assaulted on Frontier flights from Dec. 16, 2017, to the most contemporary.

The lawsuit notes that the FBI issued a warning in 2018 that the resolution ofsexual assaults by passengers reported on commercial flights has been increasing “at an alarming price.”