SEATTLE — Alaska Air announced a deal Monday, April 4, to acquire Virgin America, the ninth-largest U.S. airline by passenger traffic, for more than $2 billion, having outbid JetBlue Airways.

Frontier Airlines has announced it will depart from South Bend Airport for the final time on Tuesday, Sept. 10. Frontier began service at SBN on Oct. 11, 2012, with continual service to Denver four times weekly on a 138-seat Airbus 319 aircraft. Load factors have ranged from 70 percent to a peak of 85 percent …read more.

The St. Joseph County Airport Authority is expected to announce a new air service destination and low cost carrier on Monday. Officials are calling the new carrier a “low care option,” adding to the budget airlines already servicing the airport. Source: St. Joseph County Airport Authority