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Jazz Accepts Delivery of Dash 8-300 for Charter Services Jazz Air LP (Jazz) accepted a Dash 8-300 aircraft into its Charter Division. This Dash 8-300 is the second of two of the 50-seat aircraft that will be dedicated to Jazz charter operations. Jazz also has the 37-seat Dash 8-100 aircraft dedicated to...

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Jazz Accepts Delivery of Dash 8-300 for Charter Services
Jazz Air LP (Jazz) accepted a Dash 8-300 aircraft into its Charter Division. This Dash 8-300 is the second of two of the 50-seat aircraft that will be dedicated to Jazz charter operations. Jazz also has the 37-seat Dash 8-100 aircraft dedicated to charter flying.
“The addition of a second 50-seat Dash 8-300 aircraft to our charter operation enables us to offer more choice and more capacity to our charter customers,” said Scott Tapson, vice president, business development. “Attractive pricing, convenience and a reputation for expertise in charter operations makes Jazz a popular choice for a variety of private charter requests.”
The Dash 8-300 delivered today will be prepared for service and ready to operate charter flights by March 2008.

Mesa to Pay HI Legal Costs
US Bankruptcy Court Judge Robert Faris awarded $3.9 million in legal fees to Hawaiian Airlines in its successful suit against Mesa in which the regional was dunned $80 million in damages for misusing proprietary information in its go! start up.
Faris said the $3.6 million in legal fees and more than $275,000 in costs was due Hawaiian in his recent ruling, according to Bloomberg News. "My independent review of billing records convinces me" that Hawaiian Air's fee request was reasonable, Bloomberg quoted Faris as saying an 11-page ruling dated Jan. 22.

American Eagle Begins Dallas/Fort Worth-Tampico
American Eagle adds a daily nonstop flight between Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport (DFW) and General Francisco Javier Mina International Airport in Tampico, Mexico (TAM), beginning April 7. American Eagle will operate the service with 44-seat Embraer ERJ-140 jets.
With the addition of the new DFW-Tampico service, American Airlines and American Eagle will serve 15 cities in Mexico from DFW with Eagle operations including Aguascalientes, Chihuahua, Guadalajara (AA/AE); Leon (AE); Monterrey (AA/AE); San Luis Potosi (AE); and Torreon (AE).

Horizon Air Increasing LAX-North State Seats
Starting April 6, Horizon Air is changing its two daily roundtrip flights to Los Angeles from Eureka/Arcata and Redding, Calif., and in the process is increasing the seats available between Los Angeles and the North State cities by 50 percent. The new schedule will have two nonstop roundtrip flights between Eureka/Arcata and Los Angeles, removing one stop in both directions. Redding will have, as it has now, a nonstop roundtrip flight to Los Angeles and a one-stop, same-plane roundtrip flight to Los Angeles that stops in Eureka/Arcata each way. It will gain its own 50 percent increase in seats because its nonstop flight will now originate in Redding, rather than in Eureka/Arcata.