Alaska Airlines is starting daily, non-stop flights between in San Jose, California, and Austin in Texas – the two major technology hubs of the United States – on September 2, 2009.

VivaAerobus, the low-cost airline based in Monterrey, Mexico, is ending its service out of Austin, Texas, the United States, to Mexico on May 31, 2009.

Alaska Airlines, based in Seattle, Washington, the United States, has announced that it will start a new, non-stop flight from Portland in Oregon to the island of Maui in Hawaii three days a week from August 7, 2009.