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A new study from the University of California, Irvine suggests that it might pay to shop around before booking that Southwest ticket. The report concludes that last-minute airfares are more expensive on Southwest, on average, than on other airlines when consumers use online searches such as Orbitz or Travelocity.

The study’s author says his conclusions deflate the long-standing belief that Southwest, the dominant airline at Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport, is always the low-fare leader on last-minute flights.

source: Baltimore Sun

More options for travellers out of Hamilton International Airport.

Low-cost European style carrier Flyglobespan has launched its service between Hamilton and 13 destinations in the United Kingdom.

Federal Transportation Minister Lawrence Cannon was among those on hand for the launch, calling it the first example of the federal government’s “blue sky” policy at work. The open-skies agreement has eliminated certain restrictions on International travel.

source: AM 900

Four JetBlue employees and a city corrections officer have been charged with stealing credit card numbers from several unsuspecting airline passengers.

Prosecutors said the five used the cards to go on a spending spree at restaurants, liquor stores, and shops including Bloomingdale’s and Victoria’s Secret.

Investigators began looking at the group after one traveler rushing to catch a flight accidentally left his credit card behind at a JetBlue counter at John F. Kennedy International Airport. Later, someone used the card to run up $508 in charges, the Manhattan district attorney’s office said.

source: USA Today

Ryanair opens new routes from Dublin to Alicante, Spain, and Bydgoszcz and Gdansk in Poland today.

Alicante becomes Ryanair’s twelfth Spanish route from Dublin while the addition of Bydgoszcz and Gdansk brings Ryanair’s Polish routes from Dublin to eight.

source: hemscott.com

Three international airlines have stopped or changed their flights to Sri Lanka following air raids by Tamil Tigers near the capital’s international airport, officials said yesterday.

Hong Kong’s flag carrier Cathay Pacific and Dubai-based Emirates said they had suspended all flights to the island in the wake of Sunday’s pre-dawn air strike by the rebels.

fuente: gulf-times.com

The Latvian airline airBaltic carried 129,689 passengers in March 2007, or 34% more than in the same month in 2006, when airBaltic transported 96,851 passengers.

During the first quarter of 2007, airBaltic transported a total of 338,217 passengers, or 28% more than during the same period in 2006, when the total number of passengers was 264,803.

source: Boarding.no