United States airline January traffic statistics as released by each carrier. The main statistics released on a monthly basis illustrate the carriers traffic illustrated here as a percentage increase or decrease from the same month one year earlier; carrier capacity illustrated here as a percentage increase of decrease from the same month one year earlier; [...]
AirTran Airways has been growing steadily at Milwaukee since its failed attempt to acquire Midwest Airlines nearly two years ago. As a result, they have decided to officially declare Milwaukee a hub and are adding more than 100 new jobs to the area including 50 Boeing 737 pilot positions and 50 Boeing 717 and 737 [...]
Low-cost carrier Allegiant Air had found a home at Orlando Sanford International, but is planning a move of some Orlando flights to Orlando International Airport in a few months. Allegiant Air has made a niche for themselves in the commercial airline industry by operating efficient point-to-point flights between large, leisure markets and smaller cities a [...]
The airlines continue to struggle to fill planes and keep fares high enough to make money. October saw low-cost airlines continue to post traffic and capacity increases with AirTran, Allegiant, and JetBlue the only carriers that grew in size and traffic.
Allegiant continues to grow at very strong rates. Allegiant Air is a low-cost model airline [...]
AirTran will add Lexington to its growing list of destinations served by the low-cost airline. This coming February 11, 2010, AirTran will launch service to Lexington, Kentucky and once again bypass the airlines primary hub in Atlanta to offer non-stop routes to Florida.
Beginning at the peak Florida travel period, AirTran will fly three flights per [...]
Within a week after the announcement that Republic Airlines was going to purchase both Frontier Airlines and Midwest Airlines, the two airlines announce their intention to code share enabling each carrier to sell tickets on the other.
On the surface, this looks like a logical next step. Frontier will open up more east coast and southeast [...]
AirTran today announced a beef up of it’s Florida schedule out of Flint, Michigan to include new flights four times weekly from Flint to Ft. Lauderdale. In addition, AirTran is bringing back daily seasonal flights from Flint to Fort Myers, Florida (RSW) earlier than usual. Both of these service additions begin flying on November 4. The other [...]
Just yesterday, Republic Airways announced they would purchase Frontier Airlines giving them the financing they needed to exit bankruptcy. Today, Republic Airways has announced their intention to purchase Midwest Airlines, hometown airline in Milwaukee. This happened on the same day Southwest Airlines announced their new flights and fares for their November 1 launch of service [...]
Today, Southwest released their fall schedule with flights and fares through January 8th in addition to their new flight schedule for their launch of Milwaukee service on November 1. The schedule release was earlier than usual for Southwest so if you are looking for holiday flights and like flying SWA, better buy now!
As for Milwaukee, [...]
