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Southwest, AirTran add Orlando flights
Nov 28, 2006
Business First of Buffalo - Chances to visit the "mouse and the shark" in Orlando will get a little bit easier in 2007.
Southwest Airlines of Dallas will add its third daily direct flight between Buffalo Niagara International Airport and Orlando, effective March 11. AirTran Airways, based in Atlanta, will also launch one daily direct flight between the two cities beginning in January. The announcements were made Monday during the Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority's monthly board of commissioners meeting.
Southwest's Buffalo-to-Orlando direct flights have been operating at near 100 percent capacity since they were introduced several years ago. Southwest (NYSE: LUV - News), which began service to Buffalo in the fall of 2000, is the busiest air carrier at Buffalo Niagara International Airport, carrying nearly 25 percent of the airport's passenger traffic.
The new flights will give air travelers four daily flights between the Buffalo and Orlando, one of the most popular destinations with the presence of theme parks run by Universal and Walt Disney Co.
"These flights show just far we've come," said Lawrence Meckler, NFTA executive director.
Five years ago, the airport was handling about 2.9 million passengers annually and this year it is on track to handle more 5 million travelers.
Nov 28, 2006
Business First of Buffalo - Chances to visit the "mouse and the shark" in Orlando will get a little bit easier in 2007.
Southwest Airlines of Dallas will add its third daily direct flight between Buffalo Niagara International Airport and Orlando, effective March 11. AirTran Airways, based in Atlanta, will also launch one daily direct flight between the two cities beginning in January. The announcements were made Monday during the Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority's monthly board of commissioners meeting.
Southwest's Buffalo-to-Orlando direct flights have been operating at near 100 percent capacity since they were introduced several years ago. Southwest (NYSE: LUV - News), which began service to Buffalo in the fall of 2000, is the busiest air carrier at Buffalo Niagara International Airport, carrying nearly 25 percent of the airport's passenger traffic.
The new flights will give air travelers four daily flights between the Buffalo and Orlando, one of the most popular destinations with the presence of theme parks run by Universal and Walt Disney Co.
"These flights show just far we've come," said Lawrence Meckler, NFTA executive director.
Five years ago, the airport was handling about 2.9 million passengers annually and this year it is on track to handle more 5 million travelers.
