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MIAMI - As more airline flights return to pre-pandemic levels, Southwest Airlines (WN) announced that it is now booking travel through January 5, 2022. Three daily flights to Syracuse Hancock International Airport (SYR) in New York will begin November 14 from Baltimore Washington International (BWI). WN also published a schedule today that shows it is…
MIAMI – Southwest Airlines (WN) will begin new services to Hawaii from Las Vegas (LAS), Los Angeles (LAX), and Phoenix (PHX). In a press release today, the airline said that the flights begin in June 2021.
As WN already has established Hawaii service from five California airports, adding these three new gateways gives the airline’s customers more than 40 cities connecting or same-plane access to multiple airports in the 50th state.
Southwest is also offering additional Hawaii flights from San Diego (SAN), Long Beach (LGB), San Jose (SJC), and Oakland (OAK).
Customers may visit Southwest.com to book these new flights with travel as soon as June 6, 2021, on some routes. For some markets in California, customers can travel beginning June 8, 2021.
MIAMI – Today in Aviation, American Airlines (AA) introduced one of the first frequent-flyer programs in the industry, AAdvantage, in 1981. A year later, AAdvantage became the first loyalty program to partner with a foreign airline, allowing members to earn and redeem miles on British Airways (BA) flights to Europe.
As a member of the AAdvantage
® program, members earn miles when they fly on AA,
oneworld, and other participating airlines, as well as over 1,000 partners. Members then can use miles to redeem tickets, upgrade service class, or get free or discounted car rentals, hotel stays, goods, and other products and services through the program’s partners.
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American Airlines
American Airlines (AA) reported a first-quarter net loss of US$1.3 bn on a 53 percent dive in revenues (US$4 bn).
However, excluding US$1.95 bn in special credits that included funding from the federal Payroll Support Program (PSP), the net loss was US$2.7 bn. The quarterly load factor was 59.5 percent.
“We remain confident the network enhancements, customer-focused improvements and efficiency measures we’ve put into place will ensure American is well-positioned for the recovery.”
AA incorporated more than US $1.3 bn of permanent cost reductions into its 2021 plans, including deferring and converting five Boeing 787-8 aircraft to the 787-9 models and deferring deliveries of new 737 MAX aircraft to 2023 and 2024.