I didn't say they were seated in first class necessarily. I'm saying they pay more for tickets. They like assigned seats and to be fed most generally.
We don't have a common frame of reference. I didn't fail to mention Spirit and Allegiant or Airtran. There is nothing devious about how they operate. With SWA there most definitely is. You're going to show up (with a lot of fanfare) and with no codeshare (which means you think you're entitled to have all the money go one way [you]). These foreign airlines are going to start to question why you think you're entitled to space on their airports and in their terminals and you don't make the same [equal] accommodation for them?
This is where Gary will step in with the next part of the plan.
Once again, your argument is not an argument, it's an unsupportable statement.
SWA does not get to say who flies into or out of HOU.
SWA does not get to say how many gates another carrier, international or otherwise get at HOU, that's up to the HOU airport officials.
SWA HAS paid to build THIER own terminal. And the price of doing that, to gain that approval, was to give back one gate.
SWA didn't coerce the city into selling bonds that the average citizen will be paying for, SWA didn't promise a corporate HQ and then double back on that promise. SWA promised to build a terminal and give up one gate, for the right to use the gates they built.
This is called a perfect example of how the free market should work. Not how big Chicago politician's do it by promising one thing then doing another.
If those other international airlines, who fly assigned seats, want a gate, or a terminal, I'm more than sure HOU airport officials will let them build their own terminal.
Frame of reference? You have none.
