Low Cost Airline News - North America.Mar 19, 2007 AirTran Airways AirTran Airways is a low-cost airline that is a Delaware corporation with headquarters in Orlando, Florida, USA and is a subsidiary of AirTran Holdings. AirTran operates over 750 daily flights throughout the eastern USA and the Midwest, including over 270 daily departures from 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 Portland is the largest city in the U.S. state of Maine, with a 2004 population of 63,882. Portland is Maine's cultural, social and economic capital. Tourists are drawn to Portland's historic Old Port district along Portland Harbor, which is at the mouth of the Fore River and part , 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 This article is about Frontier Airlines that was founded in 1994. For the company known as Frontier Airlines from 1950 to 1986, see Frontier Airlines (1950-1986). For the similarly named Frontier Flying Service see Frontier Flying Service. 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 This article is about the American airline. For the former Japanese airline, see Japan Transocean Air. For the British airline, see Air Southwest. Southwest Airlines Co. Southwest Airlines named 26-year WN veteran Mike Hafner VP-inflight services. Mar 15, 2007 Virgin America Virgin America is a U.S. based low-cost airline that began service on 8 August 2007. The airline's stated aim is to provide low-fare, high-quality service for "long-haul point-to-point service between major metropolitan cities on the Eastern and West Coast seaboards". US DoT will Approve Virgin America with Changes. Virgin America, the low-cost startup airline with ties to entrepreneur Richard Branson Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson (born 18 July 1950 in Shamley Green, Surrey, England), is a British entrepreneur, best known for his Virgin brand of over 360 , 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 Z Editor: Aram Gesar, eMail: edit@AirGuideOnline.com For Air Transport & Travel Business Experts contact eMail: bizintel@AirGuideOnline.com For more global news, reviews, features and analysis, please subscribe to Verb 1. subscribe to - receive or obtain regularly; "We take the Times every day" subscribe, take buy, purchase - obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction; "The family purchased a new car"; "The conglomerate acquired a new company"; our Newsletters: http://www.airguideonline.com/order_formsubs.htm#news To Advertise: advert@AirGuideOnline.com AirGuideFlightTracker is a new, free service that aims to keep travelers informed flight and airport status via the Web. For more go to http://www.airguideonline.com/airline_tracker.htm Copyright [c] 2007 Air Travel Media / Pyramid Media Group. All rights reserved. Mar 12, 2007 |
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