Tower Air has stepped up the start up date of its new service to the Dominican Republic to fill the void left by American Airlines’s canceled flights. American operated only a trickle of flights out of Santo Domingo yesterday, and Tower Air hopes to get a head start by flying AA’s stranded passengers. The airline announced that the Dominican government granted it permission to operate scheduled service to Santo Domingo and that it started with a flight that departed on Sunday, February 14, 1999 at 1 am from John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York. The airline announced it will operate on an as needed basis until regular scheduled service commences on March 5, 1999. Tower Air is one of the busiest carriers at New York’s John F. Kennedy Airport and flies scheduled service from New York to Athens, Fort Lauderdale, Los Angeles, Miami, Paris, San Francisco, San Juan, Santo Domingo and Tel Aviv as well as service between Tel Aviv and both Athens and Paris. The airline is best known for its low, unrestricted fares on every flight and every route. The airline also flies passenger charter and cargo flights globally. The start of flights comes as a relief to passengers and free zone industries that had seen major disruptions in their cargo schedules.
