Virgin America eyes Mexico
Having recently announced international routes to Toronto from its bases in Los Angeles and San Francisco, Virgin America has revealed that the carrier is looking at potential new routes to Mexico.
The location is not yet known, however Virgin America would face considerable competition on Mexico City from its west coast bases with Aeromexico, Mexicana and United all operating from LAX and SFO.
Corsairfly to return to Miami
The French carrier of the TUI group, Corsairfly will operate Winter service into Miami from Paris Orly, effective December 17th. The route will be backed by major French tour operators such as Nouvelles Frontieres . Air France and American Airlines both operate a daily service from Charles de Gaulle.
New Vegas route for Hawaiian Airlines
Hawaiian Airlines has revealed that effective October 3rd it will begin new flying from Maui (OGG) to Las Vegas, to be operated with B767-300 aircraft. IATA BSP data (Airport IS) shows that between March 09-10, over 56,000 O+D passengers flew this sector with the majority flying via Hawaiian's existing 18x weekly service from Honolulu.
TAM has ordered 25 aircraft from Airbus
Brazil's "model airline" has signed an order to acquire 20 A320 family and five A350-900 aircraft from Airbus. The 25 aircraft have a market value of $2.9 billion according to the catalogue price. The memorandum of understanding signed in Berlin will increase the airline's fleet to 176 aircraft.
The Star Alliance member currently operates nearly 7,000 weekly flights to over 100 destinations.
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