The Globe and Mail reports in its Tuesday edition that Arajet, a discount airline based in the Dominican Republic, is set to launch flights between that country and Toronto and Montreal this fall. A Canadian Press dispatch to The Globe says that the announcement by the year-old carrier marks the latest entrant to an already crowded field of low-cost airlines, and comes two weeks after U.S. budget carrier Breeze Airways made a pitch to Quebeckers bound for Florida. Unlike many low-price players, Arajet chief executive officer Victor Pacheco said his strategy will bank on a hub-and-spoke model that connects passengers from far-flung airports via the airline's hub of Santo Domingo. As proof, he said well over half of the 10,000-plus Arajet tickets sold to Canadians so far are for other destinations in the Caribbean and Central and South America, to be reached via connecting flights from the Dominican Republic. Though no other airlines fly direct between Santo Domingo and Canada, Air Canada, United Airlines and American Airlines all touch down there regularly. Meanwhile, rapidly expanding discount carriers try to woo Canadians with cheap flights to an array of sunny destinations. These include Flair Airlines and Lynx Air.