Alaska Airlines said Friday it is adding five nonstop Mexico routes from the West Coast and increasing the frequency of some existing routes, boosting its capacity to Mexico by 22 percent this fall.
The airline will add nonstop service between Los Angeles and La Paz, Portland, Ore. and both Los Cabos and Puerto Vallarta, San Francisco and Cancun and Seattle and Cancun.
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Oasis Airlines, which promotes itself as the world’s first long-haul budget airline, is making its inaugural cut-price flight from Hong Kong today.
One of Oasis’ two leased Boeing 747 jumbos was due to be airborne at 1:00 pm with a full complement of more than 300 passengers bound for London’s Gatwick Airport.
source: lse.co.uk
Air China is due to start a flight between Beijing and Sao Paulo with a stop off in Madrid, Spain, as of December 10, according to a local press report.
According to the Beijing Youth Daily, this would be the first time a Chinese company had a route from China to Latin America and will also be the first time Air China flies to Brazil.
source: MacauHub
They now offer flights from Tenerife to Blackpool, Belfast and Newcastle and, within a matter of weeks, from Lanzarote to Leeds.
source: Tenerife News
United Airlines has announced that it will offer new daily passenger and cargo services between Rome and Washington DC, pending Italian Government approval. United will begin service from Rome Fiumicino Airport on 2 April 2007 and service from Washington-Dulles on 1 April 2007 as part of its international expansion at its Washington-Dulles hub. Flights are open for sale.
source: Easier
Big Sky Airlines said Thursday it will launch service between Midway Airport and Illinois’ capital starting Dec. 3.
The Montana-based airline will offer four daily round trip flights on weekdays and two on Saturdays and Sundays between Midway and Abraham Lincoln Capital Airport in Springfield.
Currently, no airline offers flights to the capital from Midway.
source: Daily Southtown
Mexicana de Aviacion, Mexico’s first airline and leader in the international market announced today a new seasonal service between Denver and Zacatecas beginning December 1, 2006 through January 31, 2007. The Denver-Zacatecas route has been created to accommodate the high demand of passengers traveling to and from the regions during the holiday season. It is an addition to the continued uninterrupted service provided by Mexicana for the past 35 years into Denver.
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The airline said Tuesday it issued a request for proposal this week to more than 50 communities within 1,200 miles of its Denver hub that want either regional jet or turboprop service.
The Denver-based carrier said last month it was buying 10, 74-seat turboprop aircraft with an option to purchase another 10. Frontier said it will fly the turboprop fleet to underserved markets in Colorado and the Rocky Mountains and serve as many as 18 destinations.
Frontier said the new service will begin in the middle of next year.
Ryanair has announced plans to begin operating two new routes from Dublin to Warsaw and Stockholm next year.
The services, which are due to begin in February, will bring the total number of Ryanair routes from Dublin to 71.
Meanwhile, the airline has also announced the introduction of a new online check-in and priority boarding scheme from the start of next month.
source: Ireland On Line
Moving quickly to take advantage of a new federal law, Southwest Airlines Co. says it will sell one-stop flights from its home airport near downtown Dallas to Orlando and 27 other new cities at introductory fares starting at $99 each way.
The move is virtually certain to trigger a fierce fight between neighboring airlines — Southwest, the most profitable U.S. carrier, and American Airlines, the nation’s biggest. American hinted it would slash prices on flights from nearby Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport.
source: Orlando Sentinel
