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The Tampa Tribune

Published: January 5, 2008

TAMPA BAY AREA

Spirit Adding TIA Flight

Spirit Airlines will add a second daily flight Feb. 14 between Tampa International Airport and Fort Lauderdale with direct connections to a new Spirit flight between Fort Lauderdale and Panama City, Panama. That service will begin Jan. 31 and be offered three days a week.

The Tampa departure for Fort Lauderdale will be at 8:30 p.m. Connecting flights to Panama from Fort Lauderdale will be offered at 11 p.m. Monday, Thursday and Saturday, arriving at Tocumen International Airport at 2 a.m. Return flights depart Panama City at 2:50 a.m. Tuesday, Friday and Sunday. The connecting flight leaves Fort Lauderdale at 7 a.m., arriving in Tampa at 8 a.m.

The new Tampa-Fort Lauderdale flight also allows a connection in Fort Lauderdale with a flight to Managua, Nicaragua.

Air Charter Leases Site

Corporate Eagle Management Services Inc., a jet charter and fraction aircraft ownership company based in Oakland, Mich., will lease a 5.6-acre site at St. Petersburg-Clearwater International Airport to build a 30,000-square-foot aircraft hangar. The annual rent will be $85,302.

NET

Red Hat Issues Challenge

Red Hat chief executive Jim Whitehurst said Friday - his fourth day on the job - that he's angling for a showdown with Oracle and Microsoft in what he describes as a struggle to protect information sharing in software development. "If you listen to all the squealing that Microsoft and Oracle do about us, clearly they're worried about us," Whitehurst said.

NATION
MAXjet Seeks Court OK

MAXjet Airways has asked a bankruptcy court for permission to sell its non-core assets piecemeal as it prepares for a comprehensive liquidation of its more valuable assets. The all-business-class airline serves Los Angeles, New York and Las Vegas.

Air Fares Rise

Roundtrip domestic fares began rising $10 to $20 or more late Thursday, as crude futures crossed the once unthinkable $100-a-barrel mark. The widespread increases follow nearly two dozen attempted systemwide fare hikes in 2007, or about double the number in 2006, according to data compiled by FareCompare.com, which tracks airfare changes.

United Airlines led the round of increases, followed by Delta Air Lines. Air Canada raised prices on tickets between the United States and Canada by 2 percent.

A staff and wire report

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