Discount carrier JetBlue Airways Corp. said it will expand its service from the West Coast on May 21 by launching transcontinental flights from Los Angeles International Airport and adding new flights from its existing airports in Southern California.
source: The Wall Street Journal
New York-based JetBlue Airways will add its first international service from Florida next month with the launch of daily nonstop service from Orlando to Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic (starts March 6).
JetBlue will also add a second daily nonstop flight between Orlando and Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, beginning May 1. This summer, the airline will offer Orlando travelers a total of six daily nonstop flights to Puerto Rico, including three to San Juan, two to Aguadilla, and one to Ponce.
source: caribbeannetnews.com
Zoom Airlines, the leading low-fare transatlantic airline, has announced that it will be operating a new route from London Gatwick to San Diego in Southern California for summer 2008.
From June this year, Zoom will offer the only direct non-stop air service between Europe and San Diego when flights linking London with the southern Californian city are introduced.
source: Easier
Britons wanting to enjoy the cultural attractions of the northern Spanish city of Bilbao will have a new low-cost flight option as clickair announces a new daily service from London Gatwick.
The new route will operate from March 30th, replacing a previous Iberia service, departing the UK at 09:55 GMT and returning from Bilbao at 11:35 GMT.
“‘We are very pleased to be adding another popular cultural destination to our network from London Gatwick,'” said clickair’s chief executive Alex Cruz, himself a native of Bilbao.
source: travelbite.co.uk
easyJet welcomed passengers onboard its inaugural flight from East Midlands to Palma, Mallorca thursday february 7th, providing travellers from the region with an even greater choice of destinations from their local airport.
source: Boarding.no
India’s national carrier Air India is launching a daily non-stop New York-Delhi service from Feb 8 with a state-of-the-art Boeing 777-200LR aircraft to reduce the travel time between the two cities to 14 hours.
The flight will depart from New York’s JFK International Airport at 4:00 p.m. local time and arrive in Delhi at 4:30 p.m. the next afternoon. Returning flights will depart Delhi at 12:30 a.m. and arrive at JFK at 5:45 a.m. local time the same day.
source: Sify.com
Officials of Gary-bound Skybus Airlines are quick to compare their company to Ryanair, Europe’s fastest-growing carrier, touted as the “‘next generation'” of budget airline.
But its no-frills, take-it-or-leave-it attitude also has earned Ryanair the distinction of being Europe’s most-complained-about airline.
On March 13, Chicagoland will be introduced to the “‘next generation'” in ultra-low-fare flying, when Skybus flight 362 pulls up to the terminal at Gary/Chicago International Airport at 9:40 a.m
source: thetimesonline.com
Low cost airline Zoom is launching a Toronto service starting May 1, breaking Air Canada’s monopoly.
The airline is also dropping its JFK service in the summer and flying to Fort Lauderdale, Florida instead. That route starts on May 22.
Making the announcement yesterday, Premier and Tourism Minster Ewart Brown, said healthy competition means lower prices. “We expect the same to be true now for people flying on the Toronto route. This is good news for a great number of people,” he said.
source: BDASun
Last summer, the people of Siena woke up one day and opened their copies of La Repubblica to discover that their toy airport, built in the 1930s by Mussolini for the air force and of very little use to anyone since the end of the war, was on the threshold of dramatic change. The low-costs were coming! The no-frills revolution was heading Siena’s way.”Siena’s airport takes flight” proclaimed the piece in the business section of the paper. “A radical transformation” is on the way, reported the article, “from fewer than 12,000 passengers to four million by 2020 with routes in the whole world. While the war of belltowers continues between Florence and Pisa, Siena is preparing for a great leap.”
The aim of the operation, claimed the newspaper, was “the low-cost market and executive flights” because the company investing in the plan, a “dedicated transport and infrastructure equity fund” called Galaxy, “has good relations with RyanAir and easyJet, the two most important low cost companies at present, and knows that the other companies are very attracted.”
But within weeks, a disparate group of people from the city and the surrounding area – a tour guide, a lawyer, owners of bed and breakfast establishments, one or two foreigners – got together and formed a committee to oppose the airport’s expansion. As the local press was uniformly backing the project they published a one-off magazine stating the case against. And when they held a demonstration in November, close to 3,000 people in this city of 60,000 turned out to join them.
source: The Independent
GOL Linhas Aereas Inteligentes S.A. , the parent company of Brazilian airlines GOL Transportes Aereos S.A. and VRG Linhas Aereas S.A., announces that VRG began selling tickets for its Sao Paulo — Madrid route, the Company’s ninth international destination. Flights to Madrid will begin on January 28.”‘Since Madrid is one of the most popular tourist and business destinations for Brazilians traveling abroad, this is an important step in our international route expansion plan,'” says Lincoln Amano, VRG’s commercial director. The Company currently flies to Bogota, Colombia; Buenos Aires, Argentina; Caracas, Venezuela; Santiago, Chile; Mexico City, Mexico; Frankfurt, Germany; London, England; Paris, France, and Rome, Italy.
source: CNN.com
