Spirit Airlines, the Fort Lauderdale-based LCC, will launch service to five new cities and add 11 nonstop routes next year. New destinations are Plattsburgh, and Niagara Falls, N.Y; Latrobe, PA.; Charleston, W.V.; and Dallas/Fort Worth.
Al Bateen Executive Airport announced today that it will provide landing and parking services free of charge to all executive jets arriving into Abu Dhabi during the Etihad Airways' Formula 1 Grand Prix season (10th and 14th November 2010).
Emirates will increase daily A340-500/A330-200 Dubai–Tripoli service to 10-times-weekly in November. Aerolineas Argentinas will launch four-times-weekly A340 Buenos Aires–Mexico City service March 3, departing Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays. Japan Airlines and American Airlines reached a codeshare agreement under which JAL will place its code on daily AA New York JFK–Sao Paulo Guarulhos 777 flights beginning Oct. 31.
Ryanair will cut flights at its Frankfurt Hahn base by 30% from next summer 2011 in response to the German government’s planned air passenger tax of €8 ($11.12) for intra-European flights. It will reduce its HHN fleet from 11 to 8 based aircraft, trim the number of routes from 54 to 45, and reduce the number of weekly flights from 532 to 382. The LCC said these actions will lead to the loss of 1,000 jobs in Hahn, including 150 pilots and cabin crew jobs, and that HHN’s passenger throughput will decline by 1 million passengers annually.
