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Weekly UpdatesMay 24, 2009
Aerolineas Argentinas
Aerolineas Argentinas will begin a daily Buenos Aires-Cordoba-Mendoza flight on July 1. May 22, 2009
AeroMexico
AeroMexico, beginning on July 7, the airline plans to provide six weekly non-stop flights on Sunday to Friday between New Orleans and Mexico City with convenient connecting service to San Pedro Sula, Honduras. May 19, 2009
Air Jamaica
Smart airlines offer more to retain its passengers in times of economic trouble, but instead, Air Jamaica is implementing a policy in which only the first checked bag for coach customers and first two for business customers will be guaranteed to be traveling with customers on New York-Grenada and New York-Barbados flights--and warns that the arrival of their other bags, which they would have to pick up at the airport, could take as long as seven days. The airline said it expects the bags to travel with the customers most of the time. The airline anticipates baggage problems only when the flight is more than 85 percent or 90 percent full, she said, because the aircraft cannot accommodate two pieces of luggage of 50 pounds each per passenger if the flight is full. She also added that seven days until arrival was mentioned only as a "worst-case scenario." The new policy also includes a USD 25 fee for the second checked bag for coach customers and the third bag for business class customers on those routes. Air Jamaica currently offers two flights a week on the New York-Grenada route, which will increase to three or four during the summer, on Airbus A321 aircraft. New York-Grenada service will resume this summer, with 16 flights offered in total from July 2 to Aug. 30. The airline had canceled the route earlier this year but will bring it back for the summer because of expected demand by the Barbadian Diaspora living in New York who travel home for the summer, as well as tourists attending the annual CropOver festival held in August. Both routes are heavy on visiting friends and family traffic, a lot of whom bring a lot of U.S. gifts and goods back with them from New York. Baggage loads also can get very heavy on some flights to New York with people bringing goods from Jamaica that their friends and family cannot get in the U.S. May 18, 2009
Continental Airlines
Continental Airlines announced that it will launch daily nonstop flights between its Houston hub at Bush Intercontinental Airport and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and through flight service between New Orleans and Rio de Janeiro beginning August 1, 2009. Effective today, the airline has made seat inventory available for sale in preparation for the start of service. Continental plans to operate the daily service using a Boeing 767-200 aircraft, with 25 seats in BusinessFirst and 149 seats in economy. Flight CO129 will depart Houston at 9:15 p.m. arriving in Rio de Janeiro at 9:15 a.m. the next day. The return flight CO128 will depart Rio de Janeiro at 9:45 p.m. and arrive in Houston the following morning at 6:00 a.m. The nonstop flight will be timed to offer convenient flight connections at Continental's Houston hub to cities throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe and Asia. May 20, 2009
JetBlue Airways
JetBlue Airways yesterday launched daily New York JFK-Montego Bay flights aboard an A320 and said it will begin serving Kingston from JFK this fall. May 22, 2009
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