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Six months after AirTran introduced its low-cost service at Westchester County Airport at White Plains and less than two weeks after it announced service at Stewart Airport at Newburgh, the Atlanta-based airline Monday said it would add three more cities to its Westchester service.

AirTran currently flies from Westchester to Atlanta, West Palm Beach and Orlando. As of December 21, it will add Ft. Lauderdale, Ft. Myers and Tampa.

When it starts Stewart service on January 11, it will fly to Atlanta, Orlando, Tampa and Ft. Lauderdale.

Source: midhudsonnews.com

Central Europe-based low-cost carrier, SkyEurope Airlines, intends to double its fleet to 32 aircraft within four years, Czech business weekly, Profit, said.

“‘SkyEurope will double its fleet from 16 to 32 aircraft within four years’,” commercial director, Karim Makhlouf, told the weekly.

“‘Generally, we will continue with our “Go East” strategy,'” Makhlouf added, referring to the carrier’s plans to develop routes in Central and Eastern Europe, where rising living standards and faster economic growth are expected to increase demand for air travel much faster than in Western Europe.

source: TradeArabia

GOL Linhas Aereas Inteligentes, Brazil’s low-cost, low-fare airline, starts today its operations in Chapeco, in western Santa Catarina state, Brazil. Daily flights will follow the route Sao Paulo – Florianopolis – Chapeco. Passengers from Porto Alegre may fly to the new destination via a connection in Florianopolis.

source: Yahoo! finance

Wizz Air has announced it is to become the second low-cost airline to operate from Coventry Airport with flights to Katowice in southern Poland from July 2007.

The carrier, which is the largest low-fare airline in central and eastern Europe and the second-largest airline in Poland, plans to run the flights three times weekly, transporting up to 50,000 passengers a year.

source: Leamington Spa Today

Click Mexicana, Grupo Mexicana’s first low-cost carrier in Mexico, announced the beginning of its services between Los Angeles and Las Vegas to Torreon, Coahuila, Mexico. The airline is currently the first low-cost Mexican carrier to offer service outside the Republic.

“We are proud to provide our U.S. customers with this new destination,” said Isaac Volin, CEO, of Click Mexicana. “During its first year of operation, Click Mexicana achieved our goal of fulfilling traveler’s needs and expectations, resulting in high levels of satisfaction when it comes to price and service,” he added.

source: Yahoo! finance

Four low-cost companies had already declared their intention to start flying to Bulgaria after January 1 2007 when the country joins the EU and the aviation market will be liberalised.

Italian Myair announced on October 10 that it would fly from Sofia to Bologne. Irelandâ??s Ryanair, the UKâ??s Easy Jet and Germanyâ??s GermanWings already presented a flight schedule to Sofia airport, Dnevnik said. A number of air companies have applied to fly to Bulgariaâ??s Bourgas airport.

source: Sofia Echo

Ryanair named Madrid as its eighteenth European base on Tuesday, and said it would start flying from the Spanish capital from mid-November.Ryanair, which launched a 1.48 billion euro (1 billion pounds) bid for Ireland’s Aer Lingus last week, said it expected to fly 1 million passengers a year on the new routes.

The Irish low-cost carrier said in a statement it would fly from Madrid to 14 destinations including Dublin, Paris, Brussels, Oslo, East Midlands and Bournemouth in the UK and Gothenburg and Malmo in Sweden.

source: Scotsman.com

Wizz Air, Central and Eastern Europe’s largest low fare – low cost airline announced that it would significantly expand its operations from Katowice International Airport with the launch of 6 new routes in Summer 2007 and a major capacity increase of 50% versus 2006. The airline will also deploy an additional aircraft in its first and largest base, increasing local employment and contributing to the region’s economic development. The new Airbus A320 will be delivered in May 2007.

source: Easier

A low-cost airline planning flights from Liverpool in England to New York has announced that it will be flying to John F. Kennedy International instead of Newark Liberty.

Flyglobespan is set to begin direct daily service between the two cities next May’, ‘but has altered its destination airport stateside because it will provide greater convenience for passengers.

source: Cheapflight.com

When Southwest Airlines launches its inaugural routes from Washington Dulles International on Thursday, its operations at nearby Baltimore-Washington International (BWI) could be harmed, the Baltimore Sun reports.

As the leading low-cost carrier, Southwest has a history of expanding into new markets to broaden its customer base as it follows its vastly successful and long-standing business plan of offering choice and cheap fares.

However, its latest move in starting service from a second airport nearby – just 60 miles from Baltimore – could impinge on its own local business and has led to some criticism.

Southwest has refuted these suggestions, however, pointing to its success in integrating four airports in and around the Los Angeles and southern California area.

source: Cheapflights.co.uk