ATA will be adding service from Chicago-Midway to Oakland and Ontario, effective May 11th. ATA will also add service three times per week from Oakland to Kona, Hawaii effective June 14th. On June 15th, they will begin service four times weekly from Oakland to Lihui, Hawaii and daily nonstop service from Las Vegas to Maui,…
Continental announced that it will launch daily flights from Newark to Mumbai beginning October 30th…subject to government approval. Continental has operated service to Delhi since 2005. The flights will be operated used 777-200 aircraft. Delta will add service from Ft. Lauderdale to Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic(Eff. June 7th) and from Los Angeles to Belize City,…
An Iraqi man wearing wires and concealing a magnet inside his rectum triggered a security scare at LAX yesterday. USA Today reported that he was carrying a “suspicious item.” We suppose the truth was too shocking…His bags, however, made it onboard and the US Airways plane bound for Philadelphia was diverted to Las Vegas where…
Alaska Airlines has announced it will offer seasonal service once-daily from Anchorage to San Francisco from June 3 through August 20th. Alaska Airlines’ summer schedule also offers daily nonstop service between Anchorage and Chicago; Denver; Los Angeles; Portland, Ore.; Seattle; and Vancouver, British Columbia. The service will be operated using 737-700s. Airtran Airways will introduce…
American Eagle launched once-daily roundtrip service from Miami to Cozumel, Mexico yesterday using an ATR72 turboprop. Frontier Airlines launched nonstop service today to Cabo San Lucas from Sacramento(three flights per week) and San Jose(four flights per week) using A319 aircraft. Frontier also launched its new nonstop service from Denver to Hartford last night. It marks…
Jetblue announced service from Boston to Charlotte and Washington-Dulles to Orlando beginning May 1st. The Boston flight will be once daily, the Dulles flight twice daily. It will also add once additional flight from Long Beach to Las Vegas, JFK to Portland ME, JFK to Charlotte, and JFK to Raleigh-Durham. Jetblue also announced increases in…
On April 1st, American Eagle will discontinue service from Boston to Newark Airport, which it operates four times daily. On June 1st, the carrier will end twice-daily service from Chicago O’Hare to Washington-Dulles. With United operating nine flights a day between O’Hare and Dulles, and Continental operating twelve flights from Boston to Newark…it seems that…
Airtran announced plans to begin service from Portland International Jetport from Baltimore-Washington International and Orlando International Airports in June. The service will begin June 7th with three daily roundtrips to BWI, followed on the ninth by a daily flight to Orlando. While the service is noted as seasonal, there is no note as to when…
Air France will open daily service from Seattle to Paris on June 11th. It will be its 13th US city. Delta will offer service from Boston’s Logan Airport to Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island once daily from June 29th through September 16th. The service will be operated by Comair. Northwest will increase capacity on its routes…
Air Canada is launching seasonal nonstops from Halifax to Holguin, Cuba. Air Canada operates twenty-seven flights to Cuba each week, including five to Holguin. For US Residents, visiting Cuba is illegal. Airtran announced effective May 8, they will introduce new nonstop service between Orlando and both Memphis and Kansas City, and will launch a second…
Spirit announced nonstop once-daily service from Atlantic City to Las Vegas beginning May 3rd. Also, on May 1st, Spirit will resume connecting service through Detroit to Las Vegas, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. Frontier asked today: “What is better than roses or chocolates or jewelry on Valentine’s Day? Low fares and new air service!” Frontier has…
Jetblue announced today it has entered into a marketing partnership with Cape Air. Cape Air will provide connecting service from Boston…a Jetblue hublet, to Nantucket, Martha’s Vineyard, Provincetown, and Hyannis. Cape Air operates this service using small Cessna 402 aircraft. The alliance will begin March 19, 2007. Cape Air might not seem like a good fit…
This week brings a bunch of new service offerings. American Eagle will add nonstop service between Chicago O’Hare International Airport and Shreveport, Louisiana beginning April 10 using a 50-seater Embraer regional jet once daily. Delta is adding five new nonstop destinations this summer from Atlanta: Fort Smith, Arkansas(June 7); Halifax, Nova Scotia(June 7); Kalispell, MT(June…
The Belligham Herald reports new Bellingham airline, Western Airlines, has apparently cancelled all service. Certainly a short time for an airline to be in business. Delta is offering an expanded summer schedule to Alaska. On May 23rd, it will offer daily service from Anchorage to Atlanta and to Cincinatti. On June 3rd, it will offer…
Beginning May 1st, Midwest will launch new service from Kansas City to Columbus. In addition, Midwest Connect flights out of Milwaukee to Flint, Dayton, Duluth, Louisville, and Pittsburgh will be upgraded to larger aircraft. This will eliminate 19-seater turboprops from these routes. All routes will be operated by Midwest Connect with either 32-seater Fairchild 328…
Iberia will begin flights from Boston to Madrid on May 6th…offering service every day but Thursdays and Saturdays. Airbus 340-300 aircraft will be used to operate the service. Boston is Iberia’s fourth destination in the US, along with Miami, Chicago, and New York. Frontier will be declaring Cabo San Lucas its second focus city in…
Pan Am Clipper Connection will begin flights March 9 from Tweed Regional Airport in New Haven, CT. Service will be to Elmira/Corning, NY; Baltim0re-Washington Airport; Portmouth, NH; and Hanscom Field in Bedford, MA. It will fly eight flights a day overall to these four destinations using 19-seat Jetstream turboprop aircraft. First Choice Airways began charter…
LTU will begin nonstop flights from Los Angeles five times a week and Las Vegas twice a week to Dusseldorf this May. Air Canada will add a second daily nonstop flight to Beijing from Vancover during the summer. The extra flight will operate July 1 through September 30th using a 211-seat 767-300. Air Canada will…
Expressjet, best known for operating Continental regional flights, will be operating flights under its own name, due to decreased demand for its services. Expressjet is painfully aware of the lessons of Independence Air…whose independence did not last as long as many had hoped. Expressjet’s new commercial service includes, according to their website: San Diego to:…
Flyglobespan will introduce twice weekly service from Boston to Knock Airport in Ireland. Economy seats will start at $239 plus tax each way, starting at $409 for business class. The flight will originate in Glasgow, and stop in Knock enroute. Irish Transport Minister Cullen has also granted the Scottish airline rights to fly a Liverpool-Knock-New…
As we reported many months ago in a post, a Florida man, Yechezkel Wells acknowledged that he made the hoax threat at Long Beach Airport to try to keep a Aug. 26 evening flight to Fort Lauderdale from leaving before he could board. He admitted making a 911 call from an airport pay phone sometime…
On January 14th, Julie and Gerry Kulesza and their daughter Ella were removed from an Airtran flight from Ft. Myers to Boston. Ella refused to take her seat before takeoff, and the flight was delayed fifteen minutes already and the crew made an operational decision to remove the family. The Kuleszas think that Airtran went…
Frontier is expanding service on 29 Routes – Frontier will inaugurate Denver-Hartford(March 3), Louisville(April 1), Vancouver BC(May 5), and resume seasonal service to Anchorage(May 6-October 14). On May 4, Frontier will upgrade both its Dayton flights to Airbus aircraft. Frontier will offer the first daily summer nonstops to Ft. Myers, Indianapolis-Cancun service with Wednesday, Saturday,…
An Australian man, Allen Jasson, is considering suing Qantas, which denied him boarding because he would not remove his t-shirt, which called President George W. Bush the “World’s #1 Terrorist.” He is currently unsure under what law, although he was aware beforehand that Qantas would take offense. Qantas said in a statement, “Whether made verbally…
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…