New airlines compete for your business dollars
Road Warriors can celebrate because the number of options for air travel continues to grow. A new generation of start-up airlines now offers services to a variety of business destinations to help limit your travel woes. But before you board, you might want to know the skinny on the new guys in town.
JetBlue Airways
Travel offerings: JetBlue is based at New York's JFK and flies to Buffalo and Fort Lauderdale. The airline hopes to begin service to 30 additional markets with the next 5 years.
Business Philosophy: Set aside Southwest. JetBlue hopes to give you a run for your money. It treats every passenger like a first-class customer with fares up to 60 percent less than competing airlines. They boast their aircraft has more leg room and 24 TV channels for in flight viewing.
Legend Airlines
Travel offerings: The airlines plans to offer direct service from Dallas's Love Field to Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York.
Business Philosophy: Targets the business traveler who wants first class service at a good price. Each of it's gates will soon be have carrels where you can plug in your laptop. Each of their planes are suited with a majority of corporate-style seats.
National Airlines
Travel Offerings: National flies to and from Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Philadelphia, and San Francisco with additional cities planned.
Business Philosophy: The airline plans to offer flights in and out of Las Vegas with hotel reservations conveniently attached to your flight reservation.
Vanguard Airlines
Travel Offerings: The airline is based in Kansas City and has 21 flights daily to 10 different cities including Denver, Dallas and Minneapolis.
Business Philosophy: Vanguard attempts to meet the needs of business travelers by offering fully refundable fares and fares much less than competitors.
Also see: More about business travel
