Tuesday, April 12, 2011

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air france flight from paris to washington Dulles

As of the 6th of June 2011 the Air France A380 will operate a daily service to Washington Dulles airport.
The National capital of the United States will become the 2nd U.S. destination served by the airline’s super jumbo, after New York, launched one year ago.

Flight schedules (local time):

- AF028 : CDG IAD 10 :40 - Washington dc 13 :00
- AF 039 : Washington 16 :25 - Paris-Charles de Gaulle 05 :45 (+1)
The Air France flights, using a brand-new, 516-seat airbus A380 airplane type, will feature four classes. The aircraft will be configured with nine seats in La Première (first class); 80 seats in Affaires (business class); 38 seats in Premium Voyageur (premium economy); and 389 seats in Voyageur (economy-class) cabin.

Air France’s Premium Voyageur – located between Business and Economy – offers passengers 40 per cent more space than does Voyageur. Premium Voyageur provides fixed-shell seating for privacy, a 19-inch wide seat that reclines to 123 degrees, a 39.8-inch seat pitch, noise-canceling headsets, 10.4-inch screens, a PC outlet and a business-class amenity kit. Passengers also have priority check-in and boarding.
The new A380 will also feature Air France’s new business class. Debuting throughout 2011 on other aircraft, the carrier’s new Affaires-Business cabin offers improved lie-flat bed seats; better connectivity, amenity kits,with USB ports and power; a new subdued, cabin ambience french food and more inflight meal choices.
This IAD CDG service will follow the new daily flights to Montreal.
Passengers who have booked a seat to Montreal on Air France flight AF347 between April 22 and May 8 will have the surprise of travelling aboard the world’s largest civil aircraft as the carrier has moved up the date it will inaugurate daily flights to and out of Montreal on the Airbus A380 from May 9 to April 22.

southwest airlines bradley to reagan flights

Southwest Airlines, one of the top air carriers at Bradley International Airport, has agreed to acquire the parent company of AirTran Airways in a $1.4 billion deal.

The deal, which continues a trend of U.S. airline consolidation, has not yet been approved by AirTran's stockholders or federal regulators, a process that could take about a year.
The deal may raise hopes that Southwest would add service to Reagan National from Bradley BDL DCA. Southwest serves Baltimore from Bradley, with many flights each week, but not Reagan National. AirTran, based in Orlando, serves Washington reagan National airport but has no presence at Bradley, which is in Windsor Locks.

"What this does mean for us is growth," Flaningan said, "and it means growth in destinations we haven't served before."

The deal has a total value of nearly $3.5 billion, including AirTrans debts and other obligations.

Until the Southwest-AirTran deal closes, the companies will operate independently. Afterward, the merged airlines will use the Southwest name and operate out of Southwest's Dallas headquaters.

Separately Monday, Frontier Airlines began previously announced service between Bradley and Milwaukee, one of its hubs.

Other major airline mergers of the last few years include those of Delta with Northwest and Continental with United.

Bradley is New England's second busiest airport, after Boston Logan.

jfk airport use asde X Detection Equipment

Sensis Airport Surface Detection Equipment, Model X (ASDE-X), a runway incursion detection and alerting system, ASDE-X provides air traffic controllers with increased situational awareness of traffic on the airport's runways and taxiways and an advanced conflict detection and alerting capability to improve runway safety.
is now operational at new york John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK). Seventeen of the 35 airports to receive the technology through the FAA's ASDE-X program are now operational.
ASDE-X combines surface movement radar, multilateration and Automatic Dependent Surveillance - Broadcast (ADS-B) to provide air traffic controllers with highly accurate, real-time position and identification information of all aircraft and vehicles on the airport surface. By integrating multiple sensor technologies, the system delivers a comprehensive picture of ground operations, increasing controller situational awareness and improving airport safety in all weather conditions. The system also features advanced runway conflict detection and alerting technology, Safety Logic, which uses complex algorithms to alert controllers of potential aircraft or vehicle incursions.

At JFK, the ASDE-X system has been augmented with additional multilateration surveillance coverage of the gate and ramp areas to provide highly accurate aircraft and vehicle location and identification information to the Sensis Aerobahn(R) airport automation and management tool. Sensis Aerobahn is being used by the FAA, the Port Authority of New York/New Jersey and authorized airlines at JFK for improved situational awareness of ground operations at the airport.

"ASDE-X is a highly flexible surveillance platform that can be easily adapted to provide data to other airport efficiency systems, such as Aerobahn," said Marc Viggiano, chief operating officer of Sensis Corporation. "The system will also serve as the surveillance backbone for the upcoming Runway Status Lights deployment that will further increase runway safety."

In a separate press release issued today, Sensis announced that ASDE-X is also now operational at Los Angeles International Airport.

volaris airlines new flights routes

Mexican low-cost carrier Volaris Airlines launching six new domestic routes from México City’s Benito Juarez International Airport
In addition to the airline’s existing routes linking México City with Hermosillo and Tijuana, Volaris Airlines is now offering twice-daily round-trips between Benito Juarez (MEX) and Cancún and daily round-trips between MEX and Guadalajara, Chihuahua, La Paz, Los Cabos and Mérida. With the exception of the México City-Mérida route, which launches on September 23, Volaris began all the new routes on September 22.

Mexican low-cost airline Volaris operates an all-Airbus fleet of A319s and A320s airplane and has set itself the goal of establishing itself as Mexico's second-largest airline
These new routes in fact are former MEXICANA’s operational routes.

Details:

Following routes, in sequence, to be launched once receive approval:
Guadalajara – Fresno (to be launched immediately once receive approval)
Aguascalientes – Los Angeles
Guadalajara – San Francisco
Guadalajara – Sacramento
Mexico City – Oakland
Zacatecas – Chicago ohare ORD

Other Routes applied which will be operated at later date after receive approval:
Cancun – Chicago
Cancun – Los Angeles lax
Cancun – Miami
Cancun – New York JFK
Leon/Bajio – Oakland
Leon/Bajio – San Jose CA
Leon/Bajio – Sacramento
Mazatlan – Los Angeles
Mexico City – Dallas
Morelia – Sacramento
Oaxaca – Los Angeles
Puerto Vallarta – Chicago
Puerto Vallarta – Los Angeles
Puerto Vallarta – San Francisco
San Jose del Cabo – Los Angeles
San Jose del Cabo – Sacramento
Zihuatanejo – Los Angeles

The carrier’s schedule linking México City with Guadalajara in Jalisco state calls for the Volaris Airbus to push back at MEX at 6:35 p.m. and arrive at Guadalajara’s Miguel Hidalgo International Airport (GDL) at 7:50 p.m. On the way back, the flight leaves GDL at 8:15 p.m. and reaches MEX at 9:30 p.m.

From September 23, Volaris’ new route between México City and Mérida in the state of Yucatán departs MEX at 6:40 a.m. and arrives at Mérida’s Manuel Crescencio Rejón International Airport (MID) at 8:45 a.m. The return flight is timed to leave MID at 9:10 a.m. and reach MEX at 11:25 a.m.