Dallas Business Journal - October 19, 2005
http://dallas.bizjournals.com/dallas/stories/2005/10/17/daily20.htmlAirTran pulling back at D/FW Airport
Margaret Allen
Staff Writer
Low-cost carrier AirTran Airways Inc. is cutting back some of its flights from Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport because of high jet fuel costs, D/FW airport confirmed late Tuesday.
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AirTran, which operates about a dozen flights a day out of D/FW, is one of the airport's premier low-cost carriers.
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D/FW, which historically has had average fares much higher than other major U.S. hub airports, has consistently pointed to growth of its low-cost carriers as proof that smaller carriers can enter the D/FW Airport market and compete against American Airlines Inc.
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In a recent blow to D/FW, New York-based low-cost carrier JetBlue announced it was launching nonstop flights Jan. 19 between Austin's Bergstrom International Airport and New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport and Boston's Logan Airport.
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