Southwest Wants to Fly to Cuba This Year
Southwest Airlines CEO Gary Kelly has said that his company is hoping to fly to Cuba as soon as possible: “We are very prepared to consider this opportunity and may very well be flying to Cuba in 2016.”

Frontier Adds More Las Vegas Routes
After it begins a new service between Salt Lake City and Las Vegas, Frontier Airlines will have a total of 17 flights per day at McCarran International, making it one of the fastest growing carriers at the Nevada hub.

JetBlue Gets a New Credit Card
JetBlue parted ways with American Express last year. The new JetBlue Rewards MasterCard, from Barclaycard, has all the same traits as the JetBlue Card from American Express, plus it offers a few new things, including $100 companion travel discount and no foreign transaction fee (the AmEx charged 2.7 percent for international purchases).

Piedmont Growing under American Airlines
Piedmont Airlines has announced that it is adding 300 jobs at Charlotte Douglas Airport. The carrier is now a subsidiary of American Airlines, but it was actually one of the original tenants at Douglas in the 1960s. Piedmont was an independent airline until being acquired by U.S. Airways and then, subsequently, by AA.