How to Use the Frontier GoWild Pass (2026)

The GoWild Pass is simple to buy and surprisingly easy to misunderstand. The fare is nearly free, but you can only book inside a tight window, on a limited pool of seats, and Frontier's own site doesn't make any of that obvious. Here's exactly how to use the pass from start to finish, including the parts that trip people up.

Before you start

Three things make the whole process go smoothly:

• Have the pass active. You buy the GoWild Pass once on flyfrontier.com; after that, every GoWild fare books at a $0.01 base fare.
• Know the booking window. The standard free window opens the day before departure for domestic and 10 days before for international. You can book sooner with Frontier's early-booking option for an extra per-segment fee, but the free window is the reason the pass rewards flexible travelers.
• Check your date isn't blacked out. The pass doesn't work on Frontier's blackout dates, mostly around holidays. Run your day through the GoWild blackout date checker before you plan around it.
• Plan to travel light, or use Elite Status. Bags and seats aren't included. Fly with a personal item, use Frontier Elite Status for free bags and seats, or pair the pass with the Frontier credit card, which comes with those perks.

How to find and book the GoWild fare

This is the part that confuses newcomers most. GoWild fares aren't a separate website or a hidden code. You book them right in the Frontier app or on flyfrontier.com, the same search everyone uses. Here's exactly what it looks like:

1. Sign in first. Log in to the Frontier Miles account your pass is attached to. Signed out, you only see the normal fares.
2. Search the route for tomorrow. Enter the route and date like any flight. Domestic GoWild fares only open the day before, so on the date strip across the top, tomorrow shows a GoWild price and the days around it show $--.
3. Find the GoWild! switch. In the middle of the results there's a fare switch: the regular cash fare on one side, GoWild! in the middle, Miles on the other. When seats are open, the GoWild! pill shows a price. When there's nothing, it's greyed out.
4. Pick a flight and the Basic Fare. With GoWild! selected, every flight lists its GoWild price. The Basic Fare is the pass price; bundles add bags and seats for more.
5. Check out. The price shown already includes taxes and fees, so what you see is what you pay.

That $16 is the whole fare for a nonstop domestic flight: the $0.01 GoWild base fare plus government taxes and fees. Expect about $15 for a domestic nonstop, more for a connection, and roughly $60 to $110 internationally, where taxes run higher. (The full breakdown is in what a GoWild flight actually costs.)

Why the GoWild! pill is greyed out

The catch is availability. Frontier only releases a handful of GoWild seats per flight, close to departure. Most open around 12:00 AM local time the night before, but here's the part guides miss: more seats appear at random through the day, often when other travelers cancel. So a flight that showed nothing at midnight can open up by afternoon. It pays to check more than once, and Frontier's site only lets you check one route and one date at a time. This is the exact gap FlyGoWild fills: it searches every route from your airport at once, shows the exact GoWild seats left on each flight, and watches for the ones that pop up mid-day so you do not have to.

Booking a round trip

A round trip on GoWild isn't one booking, it's two. Each leg has its own day-before window. You book the outbound when its window opens, then book the return separately when its window opens, usually the day before you fly home.

2 bookingsFor every GoWild round trip: the outbound and the return, each in its own day-before window.

That means your return seat is never guaranteed in advance, which is the real risk of an all-GoWild trip. The fix most experienced pass holders use: keep Discount Den as a backup and stay flexible on dates. If no GoWild seat opens for your return, a discounted Discount Den fare gets you home without paying full price. (We break this down in GoWild Pass vs Discount Den.)

Booking earlier than the day before

The day-before window is the free, standard way to book. Frontier also sells early booking on select flights, which lets you lock in a GoWild seat further ahead for an extra fee per segment. Right now Frontier is also advertising dedicated GoWild seats on every flight and more early-booking options for a limited time, so check the GoWild page before you assume the day before is your only option.

International flights work differently: the GoWild window opens 10 days before departure, not the day before. That gives you more room to plan, but the taxes are higher and you still book each leg separately.

Refunds, changes, and no-shows

Book a GoWild flight only when you mean to take it. Frontier's terms only allow a refund when you book 7 days or more before departure and ask within 24 hours of booking. A domestic GoWild flight books the day before, so in practice it can't be refunded. Changes after the first 24 hours carry Frontier's change fees plus any fare difference.

The good news: there's no separate no-show penalty on GoWild. If you can't make a flight, cancel it before departure. If you don't, you just lose what you paid for that segment, which on a domestic flight is usually around $15.

How many GoWild seats are on each flight?

Frontier doesn't publish a number, and it changes flight by flight. Some flights open several GoWild seats, some open one, and many open none until a cancellation frees one up. That's why the pill flips between a price and grey through the day. We dig into the odds, and what makes some routes easier, in how hard it is to get GoWild seats.

Protect yourself: carry travel insurance

This is the tip almost no GoWild guide gives you, and it matters. If you fly the pass regularly, get travel insurance.

Here's why. On a near-free GoWild fare, a Frontier delay or cancellation leaves you exposed. Hotels, rebooking, and getting home can land on your own dime, and because GoWild only books the day before, you can't always just grab another cheap seat on the spot. One cancelled flight can quietly cost more than the pass did. A modest travel insurance policy is cheap protection against an expensive bad day, especially if you fly often.

A few tips that make it easier

• Travel midweek. Tuesdays and Wednesdays have the best availability and the lowest fees.
• Be flexible on direction and date. The more open you are, the more often a seat lines up with your plans.
• Set alerts. Seats open at odd hours, so let a FlyGoWild alert watch the route instead of refreshing all night. See when GoWild seats get released for the timing, and the best airports for the GoWild Pass for where to base your hunting.

New to the pass? Start with our honest GoWild Pass guide for what it really costs and whether it's worth it, or see what a GoWild flight actually costs. Here's the whole process as a checklist: