Airline News - North America.For more airline news, data and analysis, please go to: http://www.airguideonline.com/order_formsubs.htm Sep 4, 2006 Air Greenland Air Greenland is the regional airline of Greenland, based in Nuuk. It operates largely domestic services, with international services to Copenhagen and Baltimore . It offers concessional air services to all communities in Greenland and operates charter, taxi and special flights, , Aviareps Aviareps reached a GSA (1) (Global mobile Suppliers Association, Sawbridgeworth, U.K., www.gsacom.com) A membership organization of suppliers of GSM products and services. Its goal is to promote GSM as the worldwide mobile communications standard. See GSM Association and GSM. agreement with Air Greenland covering the US, where a new route is to open in May 2007 to Baltimore/Washington International. GL operates a fleet of 24 aircraft, including one 757-200 and one A330-200 for international services. Sep 1, 2006 Alaska Airlines Alaska Airlines, (NYSE: ALK) is an airline based in Seattle, Washington, United States. It operates hubs at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport, Los Angeles International Airport, and Portland International Airport. Alaska Airlines continues with its expansion to points south of the border...Starting October 29, Alaska will increase the number of weekly flights connecting Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. and Loreto from three to four, Manzanillo from four to six, and Mazatlan from seven to eight. The airline will also increase the number of weekly flights between San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden and Ixtapa/ Zihuatanejo from two to four. Then the next day, AS will start a year around service between LAX and La Paz La Paz, city, Bolivia La Paz (lä päs), city (1992 pop. 713,378), W Bolivia, administrative capital (since 1898) and largest city of Bolivia. The legal capital is Sucre. , Mexico. Flights will operate three days a week using the 737-400 with two-class configuration - 12 in first, 133 in economy. Also to start that same time with details yet to come is a service between SFO SFO (in Britain) Serious Fraud Office and Cancun, Mexico. Aug 30, 2006 American Airlines American Airlines Major U.S. airline. American was created through a merger of several smaller U.S. airlines and incorporated in 1934. It continued to buy the routes of other airlines, becoming an international carrier in the 1970s; its routes include South America, the American Airlines will operate weekly New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of JFK-San Jose del Cabo service from Dec. 16 through April 9 aboard a 757. Aug 29, 2006 American Airlines American Airlines introduced roundtrip Web-based check-in for return flights that leave within 24 hr. of departure. Aug 29, 2006 MAXjet Airways MAXjet Airways will launch twice-weekly Las Vegas-London Stansted service Nov. 2. The all-business-class carrier currently operates scheduled services out of New York JFK and Washington Dulles. Earlier this month, MAXjet said it had reached "an agreement in principle" to add its fourth and fifth 767s early next year. It will introduce its third aircraft next month and said it is considering expanding into Boston, Los Angeles and San Francisco. Aug 30, 2006 Mesa Airlines Mesa Airlines will launch 12-times-weekly Albuquerque-Alamogordo Sept. 24. Aug 29, 2006 Northwest Airlines Northwest Airlines will expand its freighter service to Guangzhou to daily from thrice-weekly from March 25. Return flights will stop in Japan. NWA NWA Northwest Airlines (ICAO code) NWA Northwest Arkansas NWA National Wrestling Alliance NWA National Weather Association NWA National Works Agency (Jamaica) NWA Network Analyzer already serves Shanghai daily. Sep 1, 2006 Northwest Airlines Northwest Airlines has introduced special boarding lines, allowing travelers with special status -- elite WorldPerks and SkyTeam members, and first/business-class ticketholders -- to board Northwest flights at any time. The new premium boarding lanes are an adjunct to Northwest's newly implemented general boarding policy, which gives elite and premium ticketholders a chance to board first, after which all passengers board in whatever order they happen find themselves in line. By bypassing the open boarding line, the new expedited lanes permit premium customers to get right to the boarding gate whenever they choose to. Northwest claims that the new boarding process saves seven minutes per flight. Aug 30, 2006 US Airways US Airways customers can now pay to upgrade from coach to business or first and from business class to a fully lie-flat seat. For between $50 and $250, depending on flight length, passengers can request a first-class seat up to 30 hours prior to flights within North America. For $500, passengers can request an upgrade to business class on transatlantic flights up to 30 hours prior to departure or at the airport ticket counter. And for $300, business-class ticketholders on transatlantic flights can request an upgrade to a lie-flat seat on the day of departure at the airport ticket counter. Upgrade details are here: http://www.usairways.com/awa/content/travelplanning/envoyfirst/goupgrades.aspx Aug 30, 2006 |
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