WN has annouced that it’s bid for Frontier was not selected at the auction.

Indeed. This week has been record-breaking with the amount of news. I need to wrap my head around this one.

Scandinavian (as brands itself now) is buying more Q400s.

Why does Southwest hate on the Airbus’ Frontier uses?

They simply don’t want to operate a second fleet type that is used for the same purpose as their existing 737s. That doesn’t mean they can’t upgrade their own cabins with TV if they wanted to, but I’d be surprised. I do think fleetwide wifi is more likely.

It would be nice to see Southwest use those planes and maybe bring seat back entertainment to their existing 737’s.

Lying around–was that “pun intended”? As in…gear collapsed?

Cranky and other commenters:
I have been laughing everytime people state in blog posts or news articles about how this will “get Southwest into Atlanta.”

I’m not sure if you’re suggesting that I said that or not, but I certainly did not. It is true that this will “get Southwest into Atlanta” in the sense that they aren’t there now. But have they been barred from flying to Atlanta before? No. They could get in there if they wanted, but they’ve chosen not to. So I think the only thing that had been keeping them out is time. They’ve opened four cities that they felt were more important this year, and Atlanta had to be sitting there on a short list.

I think that Atlanta may look a lot like LaGuardia. It’s a spoke in the system that exists so that Southwest customers around the country can get to all major cities. Atlanta is one of those, and they should fly there.

Two questions:
1.) What kept Southwest out of Atlanta before?

Especially if your answer is “gates” then please answer the following:
2.) Do you realize Frontier has zero gates in Atlanta presently?

Frontier uses the Midwest Airlines gate (owned by Midwest) and subleases half of Midwest’s ticket counter, and Midwest’s office space. Additionally, Frontier only has employees above the wing (customer service). Ramp handling is done by…. Midwest Airlines.

I just see all over the place that the ATL aspect is hyped up…. but I see coming to ATL as the same problem as before: Frontier has no assets here. Still have to share a gate with someone else (and work around Midwest’s three daily flights) or use the common use gates like Spirit, Air Canada, etc.