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Frontier and United Airlines are moving around at Denver International Airport.
Tuesday DIA announced an agreement with both airlines to move many of their ticket counter and gate locations. In the next nine to 12 months, United plans to move its low-fare carrier, Ted, out of the six gates it leases in Concourse A. The Ted flights will be moved to five gates on Concourse B where United is installing dual loading bridges to speed up the loading and unloading of passengers. Frontier Airlines, which currently leases 16 gates on Concourse A, will lease all of the newly available A gates. As part of the agreement with United, DIA will build a $41.5 million regional jet facility on the east end of Concourse B. DIA and United had originally proposed to build the facility in 2003. In addition, DIA will pay off the remaining $110 million debt on the automated baggage system equipment, which Untied stopped using last year. Frontier and United, and their express carriers, handle more than 77 percent of DIA's passengers.
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