American Airlines to expand schedule from Fort Lauderdale

July 11, 2007

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American Airlines plans to bolster its Fort Lauderdale schedule on 13 December with new service to San Jose, Costa Rica, and Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

Additionally, the airline said it will upgrade to larger aircraft on some of its flights between Fort Lauderdale and San Juan, Puerto Rico, and its flight to Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

American's new flights from Fort Lauderdale to San Jose and Santo Domingo will be operated once daily with Boeing 737-800 aircraft. American's upgrade of aircraft from Fort Lauderdale to San Juan will include replacing one of its three daily roundtrips with an Airbus A300. The other two daily roundtrips between Fort Lauderdale and San Juan will continue to be operated with Boeing 757s.

Additionally, the airline said its once-daily roundtrip between Fort Lauderdale and Port-au-Prince will be upgraded to an Airbus A300 from the current 737-800 aircraft.

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