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Four New Airlines To Fly to Costa Rica

October 2, 2007

Four new airlines have announced their plans to offer services in Costa Rica, while others like Delta Airlines will be offering more connections and more flights.

Frontier Airlines, Air Caraibes, Air Sunwing and Air China, will all soon be offering service to and from Costa Rica.

Frontier will begin service next month with direct flights from Denver. According to the vice-minister of Transportes, Viviana Martín, the airline will be making a request for operation permit this week.

The French airline Air Caraibes has announced its first flight to Costa Rica fro December 11 with flights from Martinique and Guadalupe Island with direct connection to Paris and the rest of Europe.

Canadian Air Sunwing is the third airline to apply to the Aviación Civil for permission to operate in Costa Rica, offering charter, cargo and mail services between Canada and Costa Rica. The company has not yet said when it will start operations.

Air China, though it has not announced definite plans for flights to Costa Rica, did say it is studying the possibility. In a press conference in Hong Kong, the Chinese national airline, said Costa Rica is an option for flights to the Central American region and the Caribbean.

In addition to the new airlines, Richard Anderson, president of Delta Airlines, announced plans for expantion in Latin America.

As part of the expantion, Delta wil be adding flights from New York to San Jose and Liberia beginning next February. Other airlines now serving Costa Rica have been rumoured to be considering adding more flights and more destinations.

Alvaro Conejo, of the Camara de Turismo (Toursim Chamber) said that, in general, the added competition should lower ticket prices.

Earlier this year, the British airline, First Choice Airways, began operations between London's Gatwick and Liberia, becoming the first direct Tran Atlantic flight to and from Guancaste, and Air Comet began operations between Madrid, Spain and San Jose.

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