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British Airways announced today that it will begin offering transatlantic Boeing 787 flights five days a week, beginning March 2014. The company says it plans to offer daily flights later in the year.
Original post (Feb. 6): After his State of the City address Tuesday, Mayor Lee Leffingwell pointed to one thing he thinks would help take Austin's economic growth to the next level: Nonstop flights car rentals in puerto rico to Europe.
"If you have to fly and change planes and go to DFW and go through a thunderstorm and/or miss your flight because you got delayed out of Austin, time is money for corporate executives," Winstead said. "Nonstop air service, even if it leaves Austin car rentals in puerto rico 30 minutes late, is not a big problem."
Cities such as Pittsburgh have secured government subsidies for airlines to run direct flights to Europe. car rentals in puerto rico Winstead says Austin is taking car rentals in puerto rico a different approach, one used in San Diego with Japan Airlines. He's trying to broker a deal between large local companies with big travel budgets and an airline carrier. The company would agree to buy plane tickets from the carrier, and the carrier would fly directly from Austin to Europe.
"To get nonstop service to any one spot in Europe is going to very difficult, because it's going to be a European carrier," car rentals in puerto rico Boyd said. "And it's going to have to be a carrier that has a very large hub. And you're probably going to have to pony up a lot of money to get them interested. But if they know they can make a profit on it, they'll do it."
Winsted car rentals in puerto rico says the negotiations hit a few snags, not least of which was the recent grounding of Boeing's Dreamliner 787 because of electrical problems. But he is confident that we could start hearing car rentals in puerto rico about nonstop flights from Austin to at least one European city by the end of the year.