Tag: Valley International Airport (VIA)

HARLINGEN — The success of American Airlines since establishing passenger service to and from Dallas-Fort Worth and Harlingen is leading the airline to increase...

HARLINGEN — Southwest Airlines on Thursday again pushed back the anticipated return of its troubled Boeing 737 Max aircraft, this time extending the grounding...

HARLINGEN — “Let there be peace on Earth, the peace that was meant to be …” Community leaders sang that iconic song Saturday during a...

HARLINGEN — Ride-share companies Lyft and Uber have contacted officials at Valley International Airport to pursue VIA’s offer to allow them to provide service...

    HARLINGEN — While Valley International Airport is ripping up and replacing some more World War II-era pavement, Fedex Corp. will take advantage of the...

    HARLINGEN — The new year is here, and it’s time to set the itinerary for that summer vacation. Airline passengers flying out of Valley International...

HARLINGEN — The major winter storm which swept across the nation over the past week has now reached the Northeast, producing heavy snow and some...

HARLINGEN — Legislation in Congress is seeking to raise the price of airline tickets by lifting a ceiling on what is called the passenger...

HARLINGEN — Two gift shops are in the works for airport passengers at Valley International Airport. The downstairs gift shop is currently closed but, after a refurbishing, will re-open under a new operator. “As you walked by downstairs earlier you saw that the construction is going on for the lower gift shop,” Marv Esterly, director of aviation at VIA, told the board last week. “Megamorphosis is the design company that is actually putting the designs on. A local firm.” That lower gift shop, open to all in the airport terminal’s lobby, will be combined with an upstairs shop available to passengers who have cleared security.

HARLINGEN — Valley International Airport’s stop-start negotiations with the ride-share company Lyft are in a holding pattern as officials await a response to what they think is a done deal. Last month airport officials had a breakthrough with Lyft officials by reaching a tentative deal to assess a fee for Lyft drivers picking up passengers at the airport. As of now, the airport has an exclusive contract with Platinum Transportation for passengers who just landed that need cab service. Any cab or ride-share company can drop passengers off at the airport.