New Routes and New Planes

By | January 23, 2007
  • Spirit Airlines has purchased thirty additional Airbus 319s, to be delivered from 2009 through 2013. This will, when complete, bring Spirit’s fleet to seventy aircraft.
  • Airtran Airways announced service to St. Louis’s Lambert Airport, effective May 8, 2007, with nonstop service four times daily to Atlanta, and once daily to Orlando.
  • Airtran Airways also announced service to San Diego daily to Atlanta, effective May 24, with a second flight beginning a week later.
  • US Helicopter has announced its service to the East 34th Street Heliport to JFK and Newark Airports will begin February 5, with ten roundtrips each afternoon. Like their Downtown Heliport service, the passengers will be prescreened and arrive inside the American terminal at JFK or the Continental terminal at Newark.
  • American Eagle will be resuming service from St. Louis to Springfield, Missouri once daily, effective April 10th, with a 37-seat Embraer 135.
  • Spirit Airlines announced nonstop service to Port-au-Prince, Haiti, to begin March 22. The service will be Monday, Thursday, and Saturday until May 1, when it becomes daily.