Transportation

Frontier Airlines is returning to Billings. Beginning May 23 the Denver-based airline is adding two daily flights to Billings Logan International Airport. Frontier’s regional jet service called Frontier JetExpress will fly 70-seat CRJ-700 planes to…

"Big Sky’s long history of service to Montana, together with its proposed fair structure, code-sharing agreements, and connecting hub in Billings make it the ideal carrier to serve Montana’s rural passengers," said U.S. Rep. Denny Rehberg, R-Mont., in announcing the decision Monday.

SkyWest Airlines, a subsidiary of SkyWest Inc., said Tuesday it has been selected by the U.S. Department of Transportation to provide seasonal "essential air service" to West Yellowstone, Mont., for the next two years. http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,590039072,00.html…

A three-year-old program to get people out of their cars by offering communal cars by the hour appears to be gaining traction, according to a recent University of California, Berkeley, study of the City CarShare program.

In the very near future, a fixed bus route for the city of Hamilton will become a reality.

"Bombardier understands trains, airplanes, snowmobiles," Wardle said. "They don’t have the car industry’s need to make things out of pressed steel and glass. The next innovations will come from those companies that are far more flexible and liberal-thinking about how to make things."

"Missoula’s been a good market and if they see an opportunity to gain some market share they will,"

The automobile still is king in the Spokane Valley, but transit could have a bigger impact in future years, Barnes said.

If pay-by-the-mile insurance is as successful as its supporters in Oregon anticipate, the dynamics of the marketplace will take over, giving more consumers a chance to save money — and make the world a bit better — by doing something that most Americans have despaired at ever being able to attain: spending less time behind the wheel.

"There will be a better selection of flights, which will benefit our customers in those markets," Connell said. "And the benefit for Delta will be a more efficient hub, with planes moving at fuller capacity."