Frontier Airlines is seeking to make Costa Rica one of its travel destinations and applied yesterday for U.S. federal authority to fly here, according to the Denver Post.

If granted permission, the budget airline would offer nonstop flights between Denver International Airport and Costa Rica on its 132-seat Airbus A319 planes. No direct flights here from the Colorado capital are currently available.

According to Frontier's Web site, the airline currently flies only to North American destinations.

Frontier Chief Executive Jeff Potter said he is interested in Costa Rica, among other international destinations, including Jamaica, the daily reported.

“Costa Rica is a popular destination, and we've had great success in Mexico, so this would kind of just be the next logical step,” said the airline's spokesman, Joe Hodas.