AirTran is scheduled to begin service June 7, joining JetBlue in offering low-cost flights to and from Portland International Jetport.
AirTran, based in Orlando, Fla., plans to offer three round trips a day to its Northeast hub in Baltimore, along with a Saturdays-only nonstop flight to and from Orlando.
source: Seacoast online
The Kuwaiti airline Al-Jazeera Airways announced it would start to offer flights from Kuwait City to Tehran as of March 26, IRNA reported.
The airline, which is said to be the first low-cost carrier set up in the Persian Gulf state, has planned to operate three services a week, on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays.
fuente: Iranmania
The Miramar-based airline is cutting fares from 10 percent to 40 percent on domestic and international flights, and on last-minute fares as well, the company said in a news release.
The airline also is offering 1 cent fares, plus fees and taxes, to and from select cities in March, April and May. Customers have until Wednesday to book the penny flights.
source: wxyz.com
Swedish budget airline FlyMe said Friday it would file for bankruptcy and seized operations immediately, affecting hundreds of passengers.
FlyMe Sweden AB had not been able to raise as much cash as it expected through a rights issue, the company said in a statement posted on its Web site. The airline started operations in 2004 and now has service from three Swedish cities to about a dozen European cities, including London, Nice and Prague.
source: International Herald Tribune
Low fares airline easyJet is set to launch two new services — one from Edinburgh to the German city of Dortmund and one from Dortmund to Thessaloniki in Greece.
The four times weekly service from Edinburgh will commence on 30 May with the airline expecting to carry up to 55,000 passengers on this route in the first year. The service between Dortmund to Thessaloniki — a destination not previously served by the airline — is due to commence on 31 May.
source: Forbes
Air Berlin has improved its market position and is well ahead of all other competitors at the airport of Palma de Mallorca. Already every third passenger embarking or disembarking in Palma de Mallorca uses an Air Berlin aircraft.
The German airline Air Berlin accounts for more than 36 per cent of passenger volume at the Spanish airport. The second largest airline there is Air Europe with a share of 17.9 per cent, and the third largest carrier is Iberia with 9.71 per cent. Easy jet, the UK airline, has a share of 5.87 per cent. These are the results of the airport’s statistics for January.
source: Boarding.no
JetBlue Airways has taken a beating in recent days, facing withering criticism for cancellations and delays wrought by a winter storm last week.
But investors should remember an important facet about airlines, analysts say: “‘Our view is that these things happen in the airline industry, and that at the end of the day, customers will return to JetBlue,'” Merrill Lynch analyst Michael Linenberg wrote in a recent research report.
An icy winter blast helped lead to over 1,000 canceled flights for New York-based JetBlue and tales of woe from some passengers who were stuck on planes for hours. Its stock has wobbled since the Feb. 14 storm hit.
source: BusinessWeek
Australia’s Virgin Blue has conceded it has moved away from being a pure low-cost carrier but adds it is now considering establishing an “ultra low-cost carrierâ€, a move that comes just weeks after Singapore-based low-cost carrier Tiger Airways disclosed it would be establishing a domestic operation in Australia.
Virgin Blue still operates aircraft in all-economy class configurations but in more recent years has, for example, tried to win over wealthier travellers such as businesspeople by offering loyalty programmes, more comfortable airport waiting lounges and extra legroom through the use of exit-row seating.
source: Flight Global
The low-cost airline Ryanair starts a new route from Granada Airport from Tuesday, to East Midlands Airport in Nottingham.
The airline will fly the link three times a week and forecasts 2007 passenger volume of 40,000 people for the new route.
Ryanair began their Granada operation at the beginning of 2005 and also flies to Liverpool, London Stansted, Frankfurt and Milan from the airport which is now known as ‘’Federico GarcÃa Lorca Granada-Jaén.”
source: Tipically Spanish
Bmibaby has announced further development at the airport of Cardiff which sees the introduction of a new route, increased frequencies on existing routes and a new early morning departure on a key domestic route.
For summer 2007, the airline will be introducing a new four times weekly service to Murcia which is the perfect gateway to the fast developing La Manga strip on Spain’s Costa Calida. Flights commence on 27 March 2007 but are available for booking now from just £29.99 one way including taxes.
source: Easier
