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US Airways Connects Customers in the East and West with New Flights

Dépèche transmise le 7 novembre 2011 par Business Wire

TEMPE, Ariz.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--US Airways (NYSE:LCC) today announced the addition of two new routes from New York City and North Carolina. Beginning March 10, 2012, customers on the East Coast can take advantage of US Airways’ first-ever flight beyond the 1,500 mile limit set by the perimeter rule at New York’s LaGuardia Airport with Saturday service to the airline’s Phoenix hub. Additionally, starting March 4, 2012 customers in Salt Lake City will have access to daily year-round service to US Airways’ largest hub in Charlotte, N.C. US Airways will operate daily to Salt Lake City with 150-seat Airbus A320 aircraft and the Phoenix-LaGuardia route will be operated with 124-seat Airbus A319 aircraft.

“We are pleased to offer our customers non-stop flights from New York’s LaGuardia Airport to Phoenix with the Saturday-only exception to the LaGuardia perimeter rule. Customers in the New York area now have yet another opportunity to explore the West with convenient connections to more than 28 destinations.”

Howard Kass, US Airways’ vice president of legal and government affairs said, "We are pleased to offer our customers non-stop flights from New York’s LaGuardia Airport to Phoenix with the Saturday-only exception to the LaGuardia perimeter rule. Customers in the New York area now have yet another opportunity to explore the West with convenient connections to more than 28 destinations.”

The schedule for the new flights between Phoenix and LaGuardia is as follows:

With the new service from Salt Lake City to the airline’s hub in Charlotte, N.C., US Airways customers in the West will have convenient, one-stop access to more than 90 destinations.

Andrew Nocella, US Airways’ senior vice president of marketing and planning said, “We’re now providing our customers in the West easy connections to destinations in the East, and the Caribbean, from our Charlotte hub. We’re also happy to offer our customers in the East a chance to explore Salt Lake City.”

The schedule for the new flights between Charlotte, N.C. and Salt Lake City is as follows:

Customers can book their travel today through US Airways’ website at www.usairways.com, by calling US Airways Reservations at 1-800-428-4322 or through their travel agent.

About US Airways

US Airways, along with US Airways Shuttle and US Airways Express, operates more than 3,000 flights per day and serves 200 communities in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Europe, the Middle East, the Caribbean, Central and South America. The airline employs more than 32,000 aviation professionals worldwide and is a member of the Star Alliance network, which offers its customers more than 21,000 daily flights to 1,185 airports in 185 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 and 2011. The airline also earned a 100 percent rating on the Human Rights Campaign Corporate Equality index for the sixth year in a row. The Corporate Equality index is 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.

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