Innovative New Concourse Opens at Long Beach Airport
AirportsReviewsTravel Technology December 10, 2012
Following a lively ribbon-cutting ceremony on the evening of December 5, Long Beach Airport opens its innovative new passenger concourse for operational use on the morning of December 12.
Read moreUS Airways will launch daily non-stop service to São Paulo, Brazil’s largest city, from its largest hub at Charlotte on May 5, 2013. São Paulo is US Airways’ second destination in South America and the route complements the airline’s existing Charlotte-Rio de Janeiro service.
Read moreUS Airways has been awarded operating slots to inaugurate daily, non-stop service in March 2013 between its hub at Charlotte Douglas International Airport in North Carolina and London Heathrow Airport.
Read moreCharter Service Cal Jet Air to Serve Mazatlán from Five U.S. Cities
AirlinesDestinations November 5, 2012
Operated by Boeing 737-400 equipment, Xtra Airways’ flight program to Mazatlán will offer nine weekly round-trips of 150-passenger capacity (for a total of 1,350 seats per week in each direction) from Houston, San Antonio, Denver, Los Angeles and Oakland.
Read moreUS Airways is resuming daily seasonal service from its international gateway at Philadelphia International Airport to Shannon Airport in western Ireland on May 22, after a hiatus of nearly four years.
Read moreTransformed Long Beach Airport Terminal to Open in December
AirportsFood and DrinkSustainable Tourism October 23, 2012
Long Beach Airport is set to open a new, much modernized and roomier passenger concourse in early December as it nears completion of a $145 million program to improve its car parking, terminal and aircraft ramp facilities.
Read moreUS Airways is launching daily, non-stop service between Austin-Bergstrom International Airport and Philadelphia International Airport on September 6.
Read moreUS Airways Adds $19.99 Premium-Dining Option for International Economy Class
AirlinesFood and Drink August 1, 2012
US Airways is introducing DineFresh, a premium-meal-for-purchase option in Economy class on its international flights to Europe, the Middle East and South America.
Read moreThe U.S. Department of Transportation has selected Alaska Airlines for service to Portland, Oregon; JetBlue Airways for San Juan, Puerto Rico; Southwest Airlines for Austin, Texas; and Virgin America for San Francisco.
Read moreUS Airways is launching daily, non-stop service on September 5 from Austin and San Antonio to the airline’s main international gateway at Philadelphia International Airport. On September 5, also, US Airways will introduce a sixth daily flight between Dallas/Fort Worth and Philadelphia.
Read moreUS Airways to Install Gogo Wi-Fi Internet Service on A319s, A320s and E-Jets
AircraftAirlinesTravel Technology March 22, 2012
With the expansion of in-flight Internet across its Airbus A320-family and Embraer 190 fleets, US Airways will have 90 per cent of its mainline domestic fleet equipped with Wi-Fi Internet access. The service will also be expanded to US Airways Express Embraer 170 and 175 jets operated by Republic Airlines.
Read moreThe airline is beginning service to San Diego, Augusta in Georgia, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Fayetteville in Arkansas, and the Canadian cities of Montreal and Toronto from the U.S. capital’s downtown airport.
Read moreEight of the 11 new communities that the airline will serve currently have no service to Washington’s downtown airport. The new flights, which begin on March 25, are the next step in US Airways’ plan to focus on its core service areas of Washington D.C., Philadelphia, Phoenix and Charlotte.
Read moreUnder the agreement, Delta acquired 132 slot pairs at LaGuardia from US Airways and US Airways acquired from Delta 42 slot pairs at Reagan National, as well as the rights to operate additional daily service to Sao Paulo in Brazil in 2015.
Read moreAirbus has delivered its 7,000th aircraft, an A321-200, to US Airways – which operates the largest fleet of Airbus aircraft in the world.
Read moreIn March 2012, US Airways is launching weekly service between New York LaGuardia and Phoenix and daily service linking its Charlotte, North Carolina hub with Salt Lake City.
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