{"id":3925,"date":"2010-03-02T07:53:37","date_gmt":"2010-03-02T13:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/blog\/?p=3925"},"modified":"2016-12-16T19:45:26","modified_gmt":"2016-12-17T01:45:26","slug":"airtran-adds-baltimore-jacksonville-orlando-flights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/airtran-adds-baltimore-jacksonville-orlando-flights\/","title":{"rendered":"AirTran adds Baltimore, Jacksonville, Orlando flights"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1510\" title=\"airtran-plane\" src=\"https:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/airtran-plane-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"flights\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/>By Joe Brancatelli<\/em><\/div>\n<div><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/div>\n<div>AirTran Airways makes money, and one of the reasons it does is that the airline flies to communities willing to subsidize the service. The latest: Grand Rapids, Michigan, which is waiving some airport fees and reimbursing AirTran for $250,000 worth of marketing expenses. Beginning May 4, AirTran will fly twice a day from Grand Rapids to <strong>Baltimore\/Washington<\/strong> and once a day to <strong>Orlando<\/strong>.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Speaking of BWI, AirTran will also launch twice-daily <a title=\"Cheap flights, cheap tickets on Orbitz\" href=\"http:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/App\/PrepareFlightsTab\" target=\"_blank\">flights<\/a> to <strong>Jacksonville, Florida<\/strong>, on May 4. That&#8217;ll put AirTran in direct competition with Southwest Airlines on the route. AirTran will also add weekend <strong>Orlando-Des Moines<\/strong> flights on March 6.<\/div>\n<h3><strong>Related Orbitz resources:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Business travel on Orbitz\" href=\"http:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/App\/PerformMDLPDealsContent?deal_id=roadwarrior&amp;cnt=OVI\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Business travel<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Cheap flights, cheap tickets on Orbitz\" href=\"http:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/App\/PrepareFlightsTab\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Flights<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Baltimore hotels on Orbitz\" href=\"https:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/Baltimore-Hotels.d178235.Travel-Guide-Hotels\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Baltimore hotels<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Washington, D.C. hotels on Orbitz\" href=\"https:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/Washington-Hotels.d178318.Travel-Guide-Hotels\"target=\"_blank\"><strong>Washington, D.C. hotels<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Orlando hotels on Orbitz\" href=\"https:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/Orlando-Hotels.d178294.Travel-Guide-Hotels\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Orlando hotels<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Courier New;font-size: x-small\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New;font-size: x-small\"> <\/span><\/span><em>Joe Brancatelli is editor and publisher of <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.joesentme.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">JoeSentMe.com<\/a>, a  non-commercial Web site for business travelers. Copyright 2009 by Joe  Brancatelli. Licensed by contract for Orbitz use.<\/em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pixel.newscred.com\/px.gif?key=YXJ0aWNsZT1hNTU2NWI0ZWU5ZGI0YmRlZTU2MTMxZjVlOWJiMTk5Nw==\" alt=\"\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" class=\"nc_pixel\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AirTran Airways makes money, and one of the reasons it does is that the airline flies to communities willing to subsidize the service. The latest: Grand Rapids, Michigan, which is waiving some airport fees and reimbursing AirTran for $250,000 worth of marketing expenses. Beginning May 4, AirTran will fly twice a day from Grand Rapids to Baltimore\/Washington and once a day to Orlando.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1134,2221,2230],"class_list":["post-3925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-airtran-airways","tag-flights","tag-florida-vacation"],"acf":{"api_active":null,"api_title":null,"api_excerpt":null,"api_featured_image":null,"api_lob":null},"posts_api_cpm_point":"","yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>AirTran adds Baltimore, Jacksonville, Orlando flights | Orbitz<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/airtran-adds-baltimore-jacksonville-orlando-flights\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"AirTran adds Baltimore, Jacksonville, Orlando flights | Orbitz\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"AirTran Airways makes money, and one of the reasons it does is that the airline flies to communities willing to subsidize the service. 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