Insiders' Biz: an industry-by-industry log of selected developments at Colorado businesses.

• Position: Meshed briefs

AVIATION

* Frontier Airlines, Denver, is the first airline in the United States to repay in full its post-9/11 U.S. government guaranteed loan. In a ceremony Dec. 22 at Frontier headquarters, Jeff Potter, Frontier president and CEO, presented an oversized check for $11.6 million to several members of the Colorado congressional delegation. The check represented the current outstanding balance of the $70 million commercial loan facility made available to Frontier Airlines primarily based on a loan guaranty from the Air Transportation Stabilization Board.

HEALTH CARE

* Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield, Denver, donated $100,000 to purchase 6,000 flu vaccines for Colorado at the height of December's flu outbreak. The vaccines were to be available through county health departments and county public-health nursing services.

* Broomfield-based bConnected Software Inc. and Cardtronic Technology Inc., Minneapolis, launched bRTE, an automated system of allowing health-care provider systems and health plans to use a single trackable transaction to obtain real-time patient eligibility, co-pay, and deductible data at the point of care. Cardtronic's chip-enabled smart card provides an instant look at patient eligibility, deductibles, co-payments and prescription coverage options. The card can also automatically issue payment from health-care reimbursement or flexible spending accounts.

PEOPLE

* Seven cable TV industry leaders will be inducted into the Cable Television Hall of Fame Oct. 13 at the Cable Center on the University of Denver campus. The 2004 inductees: Paul S. Maxwell, Breckenridge, who founded or operated nearly 40 publications, including CableVision and Multi-channel News, and who is currently CEO of Media Business Corp.; Trygve E. Myhren, Denver, who served as chairman and CEO of American Television and Communication Corp.; June Travis, Littleton, former vice president and COO of the National Cable Television Association; Jack Crosby, Austin, Texas, chairman of The Rust Group and founder of eight different multiple-system cable operators; John W. Goddard, Danville, Calif., the former president and CEO of Viacom Cable; Robert L. Johnson, Washington, D.C., who founded Black Entertainment Television and currently serves as BET's chairman and CEO; and Geraldine B. Laybourne, New York, the founder, chairwoman and CEO of Oxygen Media and a former president of Nickelodeon.

* Jim Martinez, former deputy director of Economic Development and...