US Airways and Spanair expand customer choice

The additional flying will be available for purchase at usairways.com or by calling 1-800-428-4322 beginning June 26. First day of operations will be June 30.

Customers of both carriers can also expect the same convenient single-source booking, ticketing and baggage connections as with all codeshare flying. By way of Spanair’s Madrid and Barcelona hubs, US Airways customers will have seamless access to the following destinations:

Spain & Canary Islands             

Bilbao (BIO)           

Ibiza (IBZ)             

Las Palmas (LPA)                

Tenerife – Norte Los Rodeos (TFN)                

Tenerife – Sur Reina Sofia (TFS)                

Valencia (VLC)                

Malaga (AGP)                

Palma (PMI)        

Europe       

Marseilles, France (MRS)*

Stockholm, Sweden (ARN)*

Africa

Banjul, Gambia (BJL)*

*Subject to foreign government approval

Additionally, US Airways customers can access Barcelona in the off-season via Spanair from Madrid when US Airways service goes on winter hiatus. The airline has served Madrid and Barcelona (seasonally) from its hub and international gateway at Philadelphia International Airport since 1996 and 2005 respectively. US Airways and Spanair began initial cooperation in late 2003 involving four Spanish destinations.

US Airways’ Senior Vice President, Marketing and Planning Andrew Nocella said, “We’re pleased to continue our codeshare building campaign into 2010 by expanding our relationship with Spanair. This opens up the paradise of the Canary Islands, the grandeur of Bilbao and the scenery of Valencia just to name a few.”

US Airways, along with US Airways Shuttle and US Airways Express, operates more than 3,200 flights per day and serves more than 200 communities in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Europe, the Middle East, the Caribbean, Central and South America. The airline employs more than 31,000 aviation professionals worldwide and is a member of the Star Alliance network, which offers its customers more than 19,700 daily flights to 1,077 airports in 175 countries. Together with its US Airways Express partners, the airline serves approximately 80 million passengers each year and operates hubs in Charlotte, N.C., Philadelphia and Phoenix, and a focus city in Washington, D.C. at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. And for the eleventh consecutive year, the airline received a Diamond Award for maintenance training excellence from the Federal Aviation Administration for its Charlotte hub line maintenance facility.