Low Cost Airline News - North America.

Mar 19, 2007

AirTran Airways

AirTran Airways announced a service expansion at Baltimore/Washington International comprising new five-times-weekly flights to Seattle beginning May 24, new thrice-daily service to Portland, Maine, from June 7, new seasonal services to Milwaukee (twice-daily from May 8) and Dallas/Fort Worth (weekdays from April 17, becoming thrice-daily May 8) and a third daily flight to Charlotte beginning May 8. It also will launch Saturday PWM-Orlando International service on June 9. Mar 12, 2007

AirTran Airways

AirTran Airways flew 1.11 billion RPMs in February, up 19.2% from the year-ago month. Capacity rose 20.2% to 1.6 billion ASMs and load factor fell 0.5 point to 69.5%. Mar 12, 2007

Frontier Airlines

Frontier Airlines authorized the repurchase of up to 300,000 shares of outstanding common stock. The repurchased shares will be contributed to the carrier's employee stock ownership plan. Mar 15, 2007

Southwest Airlines

Southwest Airlines named 26-year WN veteran Mike Hafner VP-inflight services. Mar 15, 2007

Virgin America

US DoT will Approve Virgin America with Changes. Virgin America, the low-cost startup airline with ties to entrepreneur Richard Branson, will have to ditch its chief executive and take other steps to win final government approval to operate, US officials said on Tuesday. Mar 21, 2007

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Mar 12, 2007