Southwest
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Southwest Doubles Long Beach Flying; Adds 5 New Cities
We’ve known for a long time that Southwest would be expanding in Long Beach. With today’s schedule extension — sorry for the…
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Southwest’s Dilemma: Opportunism vs Labor
As the end of 2020 approaches, Southwest finds itself in a very unfamiliar situation. The airline has long thrived during economic downturns,…
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Southwest’s New Cities Fit Neatly Into a Hub Strategy
For an airline that hasn’t rolled out many new cities in some time, Southwest sure is active these days. While I was…
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3 Links I Love: Southwest’s Strategy, Surrender the Dragon, Wizz Goes South
This week’s featured link What’s Southwest’s Network Strategy? – Fly Data GuyA former Southwest network planner talks about how Southwest has moved…
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JetBlue Cuts While Southwest Grows
Greetings from Airlineville. On the surface, it was another quiet week for our fine residents, but underneath, there was more action than…
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Southwest Adds Chicago’s O’Hare and Houston’s Intercontinental… But Why?
Southwest used to be an airline that added dots in the Continental US to its route map at a torrid pace, but…
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3 Links I Love: Southwest’s 2021 Plan, Wizz Goes For the Kill, United Jumps on a Bandwagon
This week’s featured link Gary Kelly Outlines Plans to Avoid Layoffs and Furloughs Through 2021 – Southwest MediaI thought this 10 minute…
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The Cranky Flier Interview #18: Southwest Airlines Chief Commercial Officer, Andrew Watterson
I’m back with another Cranky Flier Interview, presented by Ontario International Airport. It’s time once again for the annual chat with Southwest…
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More Schedule Cuts, American Plays With Fire, and Southwest Corrects Its Course
I fear my relationship with Diio by Cirium is becoming unhealthy. Every Friday night, I run to Diio to learn about that…
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Demand Drying Up: Airlines Chop Summer Schedules With Florida Taking the Lead
Friday nights are now one of the most exciting times of the week. Each Friday, Diio by Cirium loads that week’s schedule…
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Delta and United Play Catch Up in August While American Slows
The story of the summer so far has been American’s aggressive approach to capacity in the domestic US market. The airline put…
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Southwest Gets Aggressive While Others Can’t
We all know the story about Southwest. It came from nothing to become the most consistently profitable and beloved airline in America.…