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A new low-cost, high-frills French airline entered the cutthroat transatlantic market on Friday with an all-business class service aimed at cost-conscious “‘Paryorkers'”.

The made-up catchword, derived from Paris and New York, is the slogan for a daily round-trip service between the two cities to be operated by start-up airline L’Avion from December 27.

The airline began taking reservations on Friday and changed its brand name from Elysair after market research found, to the airline’s surprise, that Americans as well as French people warmed to the simple French word for “aeroplane.”

source: Yahoo!

Readers of Business Traveler magazine have named Frontier Airlines the best low cost carrier in the U.S. in the magazine’s 18th annual Readers’ Choice Business Travel Survey. This is the first time Frontier has been selected for this honor.

source: Yahoo!

Flyglobespan, the Scottish low-cost airline, will begin flying between the United Kingdom and Hamilton, Ont. this spring.
In addition to distributing its own glossy route maps, the four-year-old airline will tout access to the vast European networks of two of its biggest discount rivals – Ryanair and easyJet – from London’s Stansted airport, now a Mecca for thrifty European air travellers. It will be the first daily flight by a low-cost airline from Canada to Stansted.

source: canada.com

Spring Airlines, the country’s first discount airline company, offered its customers airline tickets for only one yuan (13 US cents/ 0,10 € ). The airline company’s maiden flight from Guangzhou to Shanghai was on Thursday, representing the completion of its ‘golden triangle’ flight layout between Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, China’s major regional flight centres.

With ticket prices significantly lower than state-owned airlines, Spring Airlines has gotten the attention of travelers who don’t normally fly. Passengers on yesterday’s flight paid as low as 299 yuan for a ticket, 30 percent of the normal price.

source: China Daily

Discount airline AirTran passed on Charleston as a new destination city in favor of Phoenix, Arizona, and that means prices to fly out of Charleston will remain high.

The Charleston Aviation Authority says its because people are simply willing to pay more to fly out of here. But, if a discount airline does agree to come into our market, it will likely drive down prices for the major airlines because of competition.

source: live5news.com

Frontier Airlines will offer daily, nonstop flights from Connecticut’s Bradley International Airport to Denver for as low as $99 one way beginning in March, the low-cost carrier and airport officials announced Tuesday.

source: Denver Daily News

West Virginians planning to travel to Myrtle Beach for summer vacation now have another option to loading up the car.

Low-cost carrier Southern Skyways announced Wednesday that beginning March 2 it will offer direct flights to the vacation spot from Charleston’s Yeager Airport.

source: thetandd.com

Southwest Airlines has increased its fares, and now other airlines are jumping on board. Southwest raised its one-way fares by as much as $10 over the weekend, the fifth time the airline has raised its fares this year. Recent government data showed average airfares have risen 18 percent in the past 18 months.

AirTran Airways is expected to announce today that it will grow its route map to Phoenix, the result of the Orlando-based carrier’s recent online survey that asked consumers where they want AirTran to fly next.

The new service between Atlanta and Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport will begin on Feb. 15.

“We are excited to expand to Phoenix and bring our growing route network to the Southwestern United States,” said Kevin Healy, vice president of planning for AirTran Airways.

source: Orlando Sentinel

Air France-KLM today unveils its low-cost airline that it hopes will help it compete with the likes of EasyJet and Ryanair. The new company, provisionally called “‘Air France Soleil'”, will focus on destinations that Air France does not traditionally reach, such as North Africa, and certain destinations in Spain and Italy.

source: paris link