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A significant development is the announcement by cost-cutting upstart airline AirTran that it will begin flying to far-off Aruba , from Atlanta, starting mid-December. This makes the fifth tropical destination for the cheaply-priced AirTran (which has earlier begun flying to the Bahamas , Cancun , Puerto Rico , and Jamaica ), and a far more remote destination -- nearly two hours more of flight time -- than any of its Caribbean routes to date, and leads me to speculate that we will soon be seeing more such lengthy itineraries, and an end to the self-imposed limitation of domestic destinations by pioneering Southwest Airlines. You have only to recall that the president of Europe's Ryanair, the cheapest of all carriers, has spoken of his eventual aim to fly trans-Atlantic

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