Phoenx,Arizona - America West Airlines (NYSE: AWA) continues to enhance its service between California and several resort destinations in Mexico. Tomorrow, America West will launch new nonstop service between Los Angeles and Acapulco, Mexico and between Oakland, Calif. and Los Cabos, Mexico. The new flights follow the airline's recent inauguration of its popular new routes between San Diego and Los Cabos and Puerto Vallarta last month.

"These new flights build on the recent nonstop service we've added to international destinations," said Dion Flannery, vice president, route planning, scheduling and Internet distribution. "With so many of our FlightFund members based in California, we wanted to provide additional air travel choices to some of the world's most beautiful beach destinations. These new routes combine our everyday low fares with the convenience of nonstop international service to destinations featured in America West Vacations packages."

The flight schedule for the new weekly service, which operates on Saturdays, is listed below. Between Los Angeles and Acapulco, flights are operated by Airbus A319s with 12 first-class seats and 112 coach seats.

Between Oakland and Los Cabos, service is operated by Boeing 737s with eight first-class seats and 126 coach seats.

Los Angeles to Acapulco Acapulco to Los Angeles Flight Departs Arrives Flight Departs Arrives 385 11:15 a.m. 5:10 p.m. 386 4:00 p.m. 5:40 p.m.

Oakland to Los Cabos Los Cabos to Oakland Flight Departs Arrives Flight Departs Arrives 381 8:00 a.m. 12:01 p.m. 382 12:29 p.m. 2:40 p.m.

For more information or to book a ticket, customers may go to http://www.americawest.com/?c=12270816ACASJDCA . Customers may also purchase tickets by calling America West Reservations at 1-800-2-FLY-AWA (1-800-235-9292) or by contacting a travel agent. Travel agents are encouraged to use www.HPagentlink.com, which is an online booking tool that America West designed specifically for travel agents only. For corporate travelers, www.AWAcorpLink.com is an effective online resource that helps companies take control of their corporate-travel management needs without booking fees.

America West Vacations is one of the largest vacation package companies in the U.S., with packages available to Las Vegas, Reno/Lake Tahoe, Alaska, Arizona, California, Mexico, New York City, Boston, Hawaii and Costa Rica. Packages include roundtrip airfare, hotel accommodations and other options such as tours and rental cars. Air transportation may be provided on America West Airlines, America West Express (operated by Mesa Airlines and Air Midwest) or Hawaiian Airlines. To make a reservation, customers may go to www.americawestvacations.com, call 1-800-2-FLY-AWV (1-800-235-9298) or contact a travel agent.

America West Airlines is the nation's second largest low-cost airline and the only carrier formed since deregulation to achieve major airline status. America West's 13,000 employees serve nearly 55,000 customers a day in 96 destinations in the U.S., Canada, Mexico and Costa Rica.

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