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Weekly UpdatesMay 3, 2009
AirTran Airways
AirTran Airways has launched a sale for morning travel to select destinations from Atlanta, Baltimore and Milwaukee with fares starting as low as USD39. These special fares are available for purchase through May 1, 2009, and are good for travel through June 10. For more information, call 800-AIR-TRAN or visit www.airtran.com. May 1, 2009
JetBlue Airways
JetBlue Airways applied for route authority on a New York JFK-Saint Lucia service it intends to launch this fall aboard an A320. Hewanorra International would be its 13th international destination. Apr 30, 2009
Southwest Airlines
Dr. Karl Felber, who operates the Armistice Urgent Care walk-in clinic in Pawtucket, is accustomed to helping people get through medical emergencies. So it was fortunate that the Cumberland resident was dozing Monday night on a Southwest Airlines flight to Las Vegas for an urgent-care conference when a passenger sitting at the rear of the plane lost consciousness. The 55-year-old woman, being propped up by flight attendants, was ashen, Felber said in a phone interview Friday from poolside at the Mirage Hotel. After checking to ensure nothing was blocking her airway, he said, he began administering cardiopulmonary resuscitation. He did not know it then, but the woman and her husband were returning home to California after attending the funeral of their son. Felber said he was preparing to begin another series of compressions when the woman began breathing on her own and showed other signs of reviving N good news, because the four-hour connector flight from Chicago was still 40 minutes from Las Vegas. Southwest Flight 135 radioed McCarran Airport to have paramedics ready. Felber rummaged through the aircraftOs first-aid kit and found an intravenous tube, which he applied so medication could be given immediately upon landing. During the last 20 minutes of the flight the woman was fully conscious and, according to Felber, was feeling Opretty goodO N so good, in fact, that she and her husband insisted they could continue on to Sacramento. The airline vetoed that plan, though, and a person traveling with the couple accompanied her to a hospital while her husband continued on. May 1, 2009
Spirit Airlines
Spirit Airlines has begun daily non-stop service from its Fort Lauderdale home to both Las Vegas and Los Angeles. Spirit is also starting nonstop service between Boston and Atlantic City. The airline is celebrating the new Fort Lauderdale service with USD59 fares available until the end of the day Friday, May 1. It is celebrating the new Atlantic City service with introductory fares of USD9 until the end of the day Friday, May 1. For more information, visit www.spiritair.com. May 1, 2009
Virgin America
Virgin America launches its service to Orange County. The airline starts service with five conveniently-timed daily roundtrips between San Francisco International Airport (SFO) and John Wayne Airport (SNA) in Santa Ana, California. SNA is the ninth destination in the carrier's growing network. As part of the launch of its new service, Virgin America is also giving a dozen fliers the "OC treatment for free," with a seat on the first flight, a stay at Pacific Edge Hotel on Laguna Beach, and a South Coast Plaza shopping spree. The value of the winners' seats will be donated to Virgin Unite's partner, StandUp for Kids - a nonprofit outreach group making a difference in the lives of at-risk youth in Orange County. Apr 29, 2009
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