On the Road: New flights, pet policy, bag fee

By Joe Brancatelli

NEED TO KNOW

• Southwest Airlines has ended its no-pets policy & now permits small cats & dogs in the cabin for a one-way charge. The pets-welcome policy was effective on June 17.
• Separately, Southwest raised its third-bag fee to ; Southwest still permits travelers to check two bags free of charge.
• Bankrupt Frontier Airlines, which has been profitable for the past six months, is expanding again. It will resume regional-jet flights to Tulsa from its Denver hub on August 2.
• JetBlue Airways will launch flights between its hub at New York’s Kennedy Airport hub & Kingston, Jamaica, on October 30.
• The big airline alliances continue to expand. Star Alliance is adding Aegean Airlines of Greece & Oneworld will add S7 Airlines, a fast-growing Russian carrier.
• The Transportation Security Administration has barred Delta Air Lines from launching its flights to Nairobi, Kenya, & Monrovia, Liberia. The agency says the destinations are too dangerous & there are demonstrable threats to civil aviation. The TSA has not said when or if it will allow Delta to begin its flights, which were announced last year & stopped just days before their scheduled inauguration.