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Bonjour, Quebec City! US Airways Inaugurates New Service from Its Philadelphia Hub

Dépèche transmise le 2 juin 2011 par Business Wire

Bonjour, Quebec City! US Airways Inaugurates New Service from Its Philadelphia Hub

PHILADELPHIA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--US Airways (NYSE:LCC) today added an eighth destination in Canada by inaugurating new, daily year-round service from its trans-Atlantic gateway at Philadelphia International Airport to Quebec City, Quebec, one of the oldest and most picturesque cities in Canada.

“We are truly enthusiastic about the arrival of US Airways at our airport. Gaining access to a major hub like Philadelphia is a great addition to the connecting flights offered from Québec City. With this new addition, our passengers now have access to four Star Alliance members, including US Airways”

“US Airways customers and members of the Philadelphia community and surrounding areas continue to benefit from our development of our northeast hub with this new service to beautiful Quebec City,” said Suzanne Boda, US Airways’ senior vice president of airport customer service, international and cargo. “Customers traveling from Quebec City will now have access to 111 domestic and international destinations through Philadelphia, where US Airways has expanded its service to 456 peak day departures.”

“We are truly enthusiastic about the arrival of US Airways at our airport. Gaining access to a major hub like Philadelphia is a great addition to the connecting flights offered from Québec City. With this new addition, our passengers now have access to four Star Alliance members, including US Airways,” said Gaëtan Gagné, Aéroport de Québec’s President and CEO.

The new flights bring the number of international destinations US Airways serves from its Philadelphia hub to 36 – 17 cities in Europe/Middle East, 14 in Latin America/the Caribbean and 5 destinations in Canada. Last month, the airline reinstated seasonal summer service from Philadelphia to Athens, Greece; Glasgow, Scotland; Lisbon, Portugal; and Venice, Italy. Seasonal summer service to Barcelona, Spain, began in March.

Customers can book their Quebec City travel through US Airways’ website at www.usairways.com, by calling US Airways Reservations at 1-800-428-4322 or through their travel agent. US Airways Express carrier Air Wisconsin will operate three flights a day with 50-seat Bombardier CRJ-200 regional jets as follows:

Last year, the airline began daily, year-round service between Philadelphia and Halifax and added service between its Charlotte, N.C. hub and Ottawa. In addition to these Canadian cities, US Airways flies year-round to Vancouver, Edmonton, Calgary, Montreal and Toronto.

About US Airways

US Airways, along with US Airways Shuttle and US Airways Express, operates more than 3,200 flights per day and serves more than 200 communities in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Europe, the Middle East, the Caribbean, Central and South America. The airline employs 32,000 aviation professionals worldwide and is a member of the Star Alliance network, which offers its customers 21,000 daily flights to 1,160 airports in 181 countries. Together with its US Airways Express partners, the airline serves approximately 80 million passengers each year and operates hubs in Charlotte, N.C., Philadelphia and Phoenix, and a focus city in Washington, D.C. at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. US Airways was the only airline included as one of the 50 best companies to work for in the U.S. by LATINA Style magazine’s 50 Report for 2010. For the sixth year in a row, the airline also earned a 100 percent rating on the Human Rights Campaign Corporate Equality index, a leading indicator of companies’ attitudes and policies toward lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender employees and customers. US Airways also ranked #1 among its competing hub-and-spoke network carriers for 2010 performance as rated by the Wichita State University/Purdue University Airline Quality Rating (AQR). For more company information visit usairways.com, follow on Twitter @USAirways or at Facebook.com/USAirways. (LCCG)

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