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Wizz Air to add more flights from its Budapest base next summer

Wizz Air (Hungary) (Budapest) has announced it will base a new Airbus A320 in Budapest to grow passenger traffic by 20% up to 2.2 million passengers at its Budapest base in 2013. This 7th Budapest aircraft will start operations on March 13, 2013.

Following a strong Budapest traffic growth of 30% in 2012, Wizz Air is now announcing further frequency increases on six routes to Dortmund, Eindhoven, Kiev, Larnaca, Malaga and Naples and will reinstate the holiday route to Thessaloniki (Greece). In total the airline will operate 30 routes and 155 weekly flights from Budapest in the summer period.

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Wizz BUD 12:2012 Route Map

Spirit Airlines announces new routes

Spirit Airlines (Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood) has announced that it is adding daily nonstop service between Houston’s George Bush Intercontinental Airport (IAH) and Orlando International Airport (MCO) starting February 14, 2012.

The flight will also operate as new one-stop continuation service via Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW) as DFW-IAH-MCO and MCO-IAH-DFW, complementing Spirit’s existing nonstop service between DFW and Orlando.

Spirit introduced its ultra low fare service to Houstonians in September with twice daily nonstop service to Dallas/Fort Worth, and started daily nonstop service from Houston to both Chicago O’Hare and Las Vegas in October. Spirit offers connections from Houston to 12 destinations throughout the Americas, including Baltimore/Washington, Boston, Chicago, Denver, Fort Myers, Las Vegas, Myrtle Beach, Oakland, Mesa, Portland (Oregon), Tampa, and Toluca.

Spirit offers Orlando customers nonstop service to Atlantic City, Chicago O’Hare, Dallas/Fort Worth, Detroit, Fort Lauderdale, Latrobe/Pittsburgh, and now Houston.

In other news, Spirit Airlines also announced it is adding nonstop service between Detroit Metropolitan Airport (DTW) and Denver International Airport (DEN) starting on February 14, 2012.

Initial service will operate daily except Tuesdays and Wednesdays, and increase to daily service on March 1, 2013.

Spirit started service at Denver International Airport in May 2012 and currently offers nonstop daily service to Chicago, Dallas/Fort Worth, Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood, Las Vegas and Mesa.

Spirit currently offers nonstop daily service from Detroit to Cancun, Dallas/Fort Worth, Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood, Fort Myers, Las Vegas, New York LaGuardia, Orlando and Tampa.

Additionally, Spirit Airlines has moved up the start date for its new service between Dallas/Fort Worth and Philadelphia and between Dallas/Fort Worth and Minneapolis/St. Paul. The new daily nonstop service for both flights begins on April 4, 2013.

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JetBlue Airways arrives in Providence, Rhode Island

JetBlue Airways (New York) yesterday (November 29) launched nonstop service between the Sunshine State of Florida and the carrier’s 75^th destination: Providence, Rhode Island. The carrier now operates two daily flights from T.F. Green International Airport (PVD) to Orlando International Airport (MCO) and one daily flight to Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood International Airport (FLL).

Service between Providence and Florida will be operated on the value airline’s fleet of Airbus A320 aircraft, featuring many premium offerings, including a first checked bag free (b), assigned leather seating with legroom to spare, and more than 140 channels of complimentary live television and radio on personal seatback screens (c). The airline, well-known for its superior and personable customer service, also offers a free and unlimited assortment of name brand snacks and drinks for the ride.

JetBlue’s schedule between Providence and Orlando:

PVD to MCO:	MCO to PVD:
Depart – Arrive	Depart – Arrive
8:00 a.m. – 11:03 a.m. 3:15 p.m. – 6:17 p.m.	11:55 a.m. – 2:33 p.m. 5:40 p.m. – 8:18 p.m.
– Flights operate year round –

Customers traveling between Providence and Orlando can conveniently connect onwards to three other cities in JetBlue’s route network: Aguadilla, Puerto Rico; Montego Bay, Jamaica; or Nassau, The Bahamas.

JetBlue’s schedule between Providence and Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood:

PVD to FLL:	FLL to PVD:
Depart – Arrive	Depart – Arrive
4:30 p.m. – 7:44 p.m.	12:55 p.m. – 3:50 p.m.
– Flights operate year round –

Copyright Photo: Arnd Wolf. Airbus A320-232 N534JB (msn 1705) climbs away from the runway at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport.

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Qatar Airways arrives in Belgrade, will bring the 787 Dreamliner to London on December 13

Qatar Airways (Doha) on November 21 launched scheduled flights to Serbia, its latest entry into Eastern Europe and the airline’s 11th new route of the year. The carrier inaugurated the first of three weekly services to the country’s capital city of Belgrade, gateway to Serbia’s historic and cultural attractions. The airline’s newest route also marks an expansion of its global network, now reaching 121 destinations as part of Qatar Airways’ ongoing commitment to serving emerging and popular markets, both in Europe and further afield according to the airline.

The airline has now spread its international wings to 31 gateways across Europe and 11 new destinations so far this year.

Qatar Airways is flying its Airbus A320 on the Belgrade route, featuring 144 seats in a two-class configuration of 12 Business Class seats and 132 in Economy.

Since the beginning of 2012, Qatar Airways has launched flights to 11 new destinations – Baku (Azerbaijan); Tbilisi (Georgia); Kigali (Rwanda); Zagreb (Croatia), Erbil (Iraq), Baghdad (Iraq), Perth (Australia), Kilimanjaro (Tanzania); Yangon (Myanmar), Maputo (Mozambique) and now Belgrade (Serbia).

Over the next few weeks, Qatar Airways will launch services to a diverse portfolio of new routes, including Warsaw, Poland (December 5), Gassim, Saudi Arabia (7 January 2013); Najaf, Iraq (January 23); Phnom Penh, Cambodia (February 20); Chicago, USA (April 10); and Salalah, Oman (May 22).

In other news, the fast-growing carrier will deploy its new Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner on the prestigious Doha-London Heathrow route starting on December 13 per Airline Route.

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China Eastern Airlines to order 60 Airbus A320s

China Eastern Airlines (Shanghai) intends to order 60 additional Airbus A320s for deliveries in the 2014-2017 period according to this report by news.com.au.

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Copyright Photo: Michael B. Ing. Airbus A320-232 B-6376 (msn 3692) in the colorful International Horticulture Expo 2011 (Xian) completes its final approach into Beijing.

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JetBlue to drop Las Vegas-Burbank service on January 7

JetBlue Airways (New York) is planning to drop the Las Vegas-Burbank route on January 7, 2013 per Airline Route.

Copyright Photo: Stephen Tornbloom. Airbus A320-232 N564JB (msn 2020), named “Absolute Blue” and decorated in the Blueberries tailfin design, arrives at the New York (JFK) hub.

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JetBlue to try to gain a foothold in the Seattle/Tacoma-Anchorage market next summer

JetBlue Airways (New York) has announced plans to expand its schedule in Alaska with new nonstop service between Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport and Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. The airline plans to launch daily service for the summer season beginning on May 16, 2013.

JetBlue already offers Alaska travellers the only nonstop service between Anchorage and Long Beach with a daily summer service that will resume May 16, 2013.

JetBlue’s schedule between ANC and SEA:

SEA to ANC:	ANC to SEA:
Depart – Arrive	Depart – Arrive
8:00 p.m. – 10:40 p.m.	1:00 a.m. – 5:25 a.m.
– Flights operate daily effective May 16, 2013- – All times local –

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JetBlue to start New York JFK-Albuquerque, New Mexico service

JetBlue Airways (New York) has announced it will offer New York’s only nonstop service to the southwestern city of Albuquerque, New Mexico starting on April 22, 2013.

Albuquerque is JetBlue’s first destination in New Mexico, the Land of Enchantment, and will be the 77^th destination served in the airline’s growing route network.

JetBlue’s schedule between New York and Albuquerque:

JFK to ABQ:	ABQ to JFK:
Depart – Arrive	Depart – Arrive
8:25 p.m. – 11:04 p.m.	11:55 p.m. – 5:57 a.m.
– Flights operate year round beginning Monday, April 22, 2013 –

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JetBlue Airways arrives in Grand Cayman today

JetBlue Airways (New York) today takes flight to its newest Caribbean destination, Grand Cayman in the Cayman Islands, from New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) with three times weekly service on Mondays, Thursdays and Saturdays JFK to Owen Roberts International Airport (GCM). Saturday-only service to the Cayman Islands from Boston’s Logan International Airport (BOS) will begin this Saturday, November 17.

Grand Cayman is the airline’s 74^th destination.

JetBlue’s schedule between New York and Grand Cayman:

JFK to GCM:	GCM to JFK:
Depart – Arrive	Depart – Arrive
7:05 a.m. – 11:02 a.m.	12:00 p.m. – 3:49 p.m.
– Flights operate three times weekly on Mon., Thurs., Sat. – – All times local –

JetBlue’s schedule between Boston and Grand Cayman:

BOS to GCM:	GCM to BOS:
Depart – Arrive	Depart – Arrive
10:10 a.m. – 2:34 p.m.	3:30 p.m. – 7:40 p.m.
– Flights operate on Saturdays beginning Sat. Nov. 17, 2012 – – All times local –

JetBlue’s flights to Grand Cayman from Boston and New York will be operated with its Airbus A320 fleet.

Copyright Photo: Stephen Tornblom. Airbus A320-232 N605JB (msn 2368) decorated in the markings of the Boston Red Sox, taxies across the tarmac at JFK International Airport in New York.

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Spirit Airlines adds new seasonal services

Spirit Airlines (Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood) today starts new seasonal service to a variety of warm and sunny destinations and resumes seasonal service to favorite winter travel hot spots, including:

New nonstop service to Tampa from Chicago — as well as resuming increased seasonal service to Tampa from Detroit and Fort Lauderdale, plus low fare connections to a variety of destinations throughout the Caribbean and Latin America.
New nonstop service to Fort Myers from Boston, Dallas/Fort Worth and Minneapolis/St. Paul — as well as resuming seasonal service from Chicago, and increased frequencies from Detroit and Atlantic City.
New nonstop service from Minneapolis/St. Paul to Fort Lauderdale and Fort Myers — as well as low fare connections to a variety of destinations throughout the Caribbean and Latin America.
New nonstop service from Chicago to Phoenix/Mesa and Tampa — as well as resuming seasonal service to Fort Myers.
Resuming seasonal service between Atlantic City and West Palm Beach.
Resuming seasonal nonstop service between Detroit and Cancun, Mexico.

In addition, the ultra low-fare airline today also starts daily nonstop service from San Diego to two new markets: Portland, Oregon and Los Cabos, Mexico.

Spirit’s Portland, Oregon (PDX) — San Diego (SAN) schedule effective November 8, 2012:

	Depart	Arrive	Flight #	Stops	Frequency
Portland, Oregon — San Diego	6:15 am	8:45 am	470	0	Daily
San Diego — Portland, Oregon	8:51 pm	11:21 pm	245	0	Daily

Spirit’s San Diego (SAN) — Los Cabos, Mexico (SJD) schedule effective November 8, 2012:

	Depart	Arrive	Flight #	Stops	Frequency
San Diego — Los Cabos, Mexico	10:40 am	1:45 pm	107	0	Daily
Los Cabos, Mexico — San Diego	2:40 pm	3:55 pm	108	0	Daily

In addition to San Diego, Spirit’s service from Portland includes daily nonstop service to Dallas/Fort Worth and Las Vegas, as well as connecting service to Los Cabos, Mexico.

Spirit’s network from San Diego includes daily nonstop service to Dallas/Fort Worth, Las Vegas, Los Cabos, and now Portland, Oregon.

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