Frontier faces $ 474,000 penalty for lack of medical supplies

The Federal Aviation Administration is proposing a civil penalty of $ 474,000 against Frontier Airlines Inc., alleging that Denver aircraft had no medical supplies on hundreds of flights.

In June and July 2017, Frontier workers installed emergency medical kits without injectable epinephrine or atropine or both on 11 aircraft. The FAA alleges that even after Frontier became aware that the kits were defective, the company continued to operate the aircraft.

Frontier was informed that it was operating aircraft with defective emergency medical kits on July 10, 2017. The following day, the company requested an exemption that would allow it to continue flying aircraft with the kits. The exemption was approved by the FAA on September 16, 2017, according to a press release from the agency.

But the FAA alleges that Frontier continued to operate the aircraft on 787 flights after becoming aware of the problem with the medical kits and before the FAA approved the exemption.