Spirit Announces New Year-Round Services from New Orleans and Houston

Spirit Airlines is launching three new year-round routes from Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport in May, upon the start of its summer schedule, and in April it will begin operating a new year-round service from Houston’s George Bush Intercontinental Airport.

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Air Canada will launch non-stop services between four Canadian hubs and 12 U.S. cities in its summer 2016 season, with 10 of the 12 new routes to be operated on a year-round basis.

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Southwest Airlines is planning to launch international service from Houston Hobby Airport to eight cities in Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean this fall.

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Star Alliance member Air New Zealand will launch non-stop service between Auckland and Houston Bush Intercontinental Airport, a major hub for alliance partner United Airlines, in mid-December.

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Southwest Airlines has announced new routes to eight additional cities from Dallas Love Field as part of a service expansion that will see it add 16 more flights a day from the airport on August 9.

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Mexican low-cost carrier Volaris is launching three-times-weekly service between Guadalajara and Houston Bush Intercontinental Airport in March.

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In a new extension of its flight schedule to August 7, Southwest Airlines has added seven new year-round U.S. domestic routes, along with 18 additional domestic seasonal and two international services for summer 2015.

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Japanese carrier All Nippon Airways will launch a new route on June 12 from Narita International Airport near Tokyo to Houston, subject to receiving required government approvals.

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United Airlines is launching new daily service between Houston Bush Intercontinental Airport and Santiago de Chile on December 7, offering the only non-stop service between the airline’s principal Latin American gateway and the Chilean capital.

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Spirit Airlines plans to launch service from Houston Bush Intercontinental Airport to 10 new destinations in the spring of 2015, three of them in the U.S. and the rest in Mexico and Central America. New U.S. destinations are the Tampa, Baltimore/Washington International and Oakland airports.

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Emirates is replacing Boeing 777-300ERs with Airbus A380s on its routes from Dubai to San Francisco and Houston, from December 1 and December 3 respectively.

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SAS is launching six-times-weekly, all-business class service between Stavanger in Norway and Houston on August 20. PrivatAir, a Swiss executive charter and sub-service operator which owns the Boeing BBJ, will operate it on SAS’ behalf and in SAS colors.

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Southwest Airlines is more than doubling the number of flights it operates from Washington Reagan National Airport this summer, launching seven new routes and additional connecting itineraries.

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The inaugural flight will take place on May 2, Korean Air operating the service with a Boeing 777-200ER.

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In its new schedule extension through June 2014, Southwest Airlines is adding new routes from Portland in Oregon and San Diego, and is increasing its services in existing markets from New York LaGuardia.

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Southwest Airlines has broken ground on a new international terminal at Houston’s William P. Hobby Airport, marking the official start of construction on the $156 million project.

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On the day that United Airlines re-launched Boeing 787 commercial service from the airline’s hub in Houston, the carrier has provided details of new 787 services it plans to begin this summer.

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The U.S. Department of Transportation recently awarded slot exemptions for this service by selecting Southwest Airlines’ application over competing applications by other carriers to serve other cities from Washington Reagan National Airport.

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Southwest Airlines is launching service to Memphis, Pensacola, and Richmond in Virginia on November 3. Both Southwest Airlines and subsidiary AirTran Airways have newly extended their schedules through until New Year’s weekend and the two airlines are launching a sizable number of new year-round and seasonal services.

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