Flying to or from San Francisco’s International Airport (SFO) just got a whole lot easier. According to the SF Convention & Visitors Bureau there are some new airlines flying from SFO, not to mention existing carriers offering new routes.
This is great news for travelers heading to or from San Francisco, especially when it comes to finding low-cost and budget airfares. In the travel industry competition is a very healthy thing for consumers.
Here’s a quick summary of the new routes and services from SFO:
- Southwest Airlines resumes SFO service in the fall of 2007! This pioneering low-cost airline will start with 14 daily departures with a mix of short, medium and long-distance flights and a promise of cheap introductory fares. This is great news for travelers of all budgets.
- Air China is increasing the number of daily non-stop flights from SFO to Beijing, China.
- Alaska Airlines has added four new daily flights to San Diego, one daily flight to Los Angeles, and three new weekly flights to Cancun, Mexico.
- Frontier Airlines, in addition to its five daily Los Angeles flights, will add a second daily flight to Las Vegas effective April 14, 2007.
- JetBlue Airways will begin a new service on May 3 from SFO to New York’s JFK airport, with four daily non-stop flights in addition to one daily non-stop flight to Boston.
- Qantas Airways will add two additional services (on Mondays and Saturdays) starting March 26 to Sydney, Australia, for a total of five weekly non-stop options.
- United Airlines will add more service to Asia effective April 1, with reinstated daily non-stop flights to Taipei, Taiwan, and an additional three flights (on Wednesday, Friday & Sunday) to Hong Kong, for a total of 10 weekly non-stop flights to Asia.
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November 18th, 2008 at 10:22 am
You should also check out Singapore Airlines.