AirTran to increase daily flights to Vegas

Posted on Mon, Mar. 22, 2004 
 
AirTran to increase daily flights to Vegas
Fort Worth Star Telegram, TX

Area gamblers will soon have more opportunity for
cheap flights to Sin City, when discount airline
AirTran Airways boosts its service to Las Vegas from
Dallas/Fort Worth Airport.

Just six weeks after launching the Las Vegas service
with two daily departures, AirTran, based in Orlando,
Fla., plans to announce today that it will add two
more flights daily to McCarran International Airport,
and a third flight on Thursdays, Fridays and Sundays.


The new flights will start June 17.


"When we started this last month, our very first
flight was oversold, which gave us a sense of how
strong the demand is," said AirTran spokeswoman Judy
Graham-Weaver. "It's a flight that has performed very
well."


The discount carrier has been expanding its presence
at D/FW Airport after acquiring three more gates at
the airport last year. In recent days, it announced
new nonstop flights to Baltimore/Washington
International Airport as well.


The carrier also serves Orlando and Atlanta with
direct flights from D/FW and cities nationwide via
connections through its hub at Hartsfield-Jackson
Atlanta Airport.


A tiny operation compared with Fort Worth-based
American Airlines, which controls nearly 70 percent of
D/FW's traffic, AirTran can have a big effect on
fares.


That's because major carriers such as American and
Delta Air Lines, which has a small hub at D/FW,
generally match the cheaper tickets offered by
discounters such as AirTran.


On Monday, AirTran was listing flights from D/FW to
Las Vegas at $160 round trip.

 

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