AirTran airways on Sept 15 released schedules for new flights from it’s hub in Atlanta and Orlando, Fla. to Aruba, a popular island tourists destination in the southern Caribbean.
The low cost airline, a subsidiary of AirTran Holdings Inc. will begin Saturday flights from Atlanta on Dec 19 and from Orlando Fla. on Feb 13, 2010, assuming it gets final government approval for the routes. The new route is AirTrans fifth to the Caribbean and supplements recently announced service to Montego Bay, Jamica, and Nassau Bahamas.
An AirTran spokesperson told GlobalAtlanta at the time those routes were announced that the flight was not as far along in the U.S Transportation Department approval process as the other two flights.
Aruba is part of the Netherlands Antilles, a chain of Dutch island territories of the northwestern coast of Venezuela that also includes Curacao and Bonaire.
AirTran’s only international flight to a non-island destination is a route to Cancun Mexico that started this year.
