Southwest Airlines to cut flights...

[Flying the Line]

FYI: Threads were merged as this is an LCC section airline...

Southwest not a major anymore? They do carry the most domestic passengers don't you know.

 

[maxblast72]

Hmmmmm.....maybe lil' Tranny is winning some battles. BWI, Fll, and MCO are doing very well for Airtran. SWA already cutting a flight from MKE too. Not that Airtran is that good of an airline, but interesting to see SWA pull back flights before Airtran. Historically Airtran is the first to flinch.

Historically Airtran may have been the first to flinch, but historically Airtran was higher cost than Southwest. Due to the growth of the last decade, addition of larger 737s, and Airtran management's outhedging Southwest (Airtran's all-in fuel costs were 16 cents a gallon better than SWA's in 2009 if I recall right), Airtran's total CASM dropped below Southwest's CASM is 2009 and is now close to 10% lower. Southwest management is not stupid and is optimizing their schedule to go after weaker competitors like Frontier and United.

 

[Skyboy722]

LCC = Low Cost Carrier

I think SWA fills that meaning... and thus this section... thanks for playing "wheel of forum's"

Well, apch, I think WN also fills the meaning of the term "Major Airline". You guys should change the title of the other forum to "Legacy", and then you'd be right.

 

[GlobeIII]

Well, apch, I think WN also fills the meaning of the term "Major Airline". You guys should change the title of the other forum to "Legacy", and then you'd be right.

:laugh:

 

[Popeye0537]

And Denver will be our 4th largest station in daily departures by May. Let me think.... who else flies out of Denver? Thinking.... thinking....

On a side note it sucks that we are going to have to go through this with the Tranny dudes.

Gup

Two airlines that continue to do better then you in DEN??

MKE-TPA, who else flys that... Thinking.....thinking......

 

[crashpad]

Elsey's getting spanked in Denver and sploodged in Milwaukee.
So much for all the "It's On" trash talk?

I will say it takes a two-on-one fight to win against them. They are some resilliant hombres! I said hi to one of their cowboys in the terminal: He reached in his pocket pulled out a finger and shot me with his imaginary pistol....saying, "KITCHOW!"
I didn't know whether to fall down and play dead....or drop my pants and fire a missle?

 

[Flying the Line]

Two airlines that continue to do better then you in DEN??

MKE-TPA, who else flys that... Thinking.....thinking......

You're basing your comments on droping one flight in MKE and adding 11 in DEN, which makes WN the second largest in DEN. I know what you're thinking - one day Republc will be the new Southwest. Good luck with that.

 

[Flying the Line]

Here is the Hitler "save the animals" campain.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpNLdEWgWHw

 

[waka]

Well, apch, I think WN also fills the meaning of the term "Major Airline". You guys should change the title of the other forum to "Legacy", and then you'd be right.

Take your irrelevant BS to the Semantics forum!

 

[Hamburger]

Southwest not a major anymore? They do carry the most domestic passengers don't you know.

Greyhound, with 16,000 departures to 3700 destinations has the most domestic passengers, don't you know?
McDonald's serves a LOT of food, but they don't get confused with a Restaurant.
When you can't cross a border, have customers who use garbage bags as luggage, have never made a position report, and assign seats (no cattle chutes at the gates), you don't get to be a Major. At a Major, nobody in your class bought a type rating as a condition for employment.
I don't work for one either. It's not a big deal.
Feel free to reapply in the future.
They created the LCC model. There wouldn't be an LCC thread without Southwest. Own it.