The St. Kitts Tourism Authority announced that American Airlines will be increasing service to St. Kitts from Miami to daily flights beginning November 3, 2008.
Lufthansa posted a rise in passenger numbers in the first six months of 2008. More than 28 million flew with Lufthansa in the period from January through June, an increase of 5.4 percent on the year-earlier level.
In June 2008, a total of 2,704,655 passengers traveled on Air Berlin (06/2007: 2,706,088 passengers). At 80.9 percent, fleet capacity utilization was 0.7 percentage points higher than in the corresponding month of the previous year (06/2007: 80.2 percent).
Vueling Airlines’ Board of Directors has approved the memorandum of understanding in relation to Vueling and Clickair’s integration. Its intention is to define the emerging Society’s operational structure and main milestones, as well as some of the obligations for the implicated parties: Vueling Airlines, Clickair, Inversiones Hemisferio, Iberia, and Nefinsa, the latter three on their condition of both companies’ main shareholders.
Regularly scheduled international flights will return Friday to Jacksonville International Airport with a new nonstop flight to the Bahamas.
Another U.S. airline route is going into the cooler for the winter: United’s new Washington-Moscow flight. Citing fuel costs, the airline notified the Transportation Department on July 2 that it would prefer to delay its inaugural flight in that market to March 29, 2009.