Recently, the airline has been growing its transborder network, adding more new routes and deploying larger aircraft next year.

These new routes will connect passengers from 21 airports across the United States and the Caribbean, the carrier said in a Tuesday news release.

This move marks one of the largest expansions in the ultra-low-cost carrier’s history, even as it continues to face ongoing Boeing delivery delays. 

Skiles is best known as the first officer on US Airways flight 1549, which landed in New York’s Hudson River in January 2009.

The route is a service resumption; Continental Micronesia last served the market in 2005, according to Aeroroutes. Continental and United merged in 2010.

Spirit is filing for bankruptcy after years of quarterly losses and mounting debt, the budget carrier announced on Monday.

Several animals were being shipped to a local pet store onboard the Wednesday flight when 132 hamsters escaped from their cages.

A Southwest Boeing 737 aircraft was reportedly struck by gunfire on Friday evening, an airline spokesperson said in a statement.

Breeze Airways, one of the newest entrants to the U.S. airline market, revealed its unique livery when it began operations in 2021.

According to initial reports, an American Airlines Airbus A321neo failed to turn correctly, putting the jet close to nearby terrain.