Southwest
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Southwest Surprises With a Telling New CEO Pick
Southwest CEO Gary Kelly has been talking about succession for a long time. He’s been in the job for 17 years, and…
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3 Links I Love: Boom Silliness, Avelo in Connecticut, Southwest and Singapore Long Reads
This Week’s Featured Link Boom overture still has many boxes to tick – AirInsightGroupI’d like to link to Jon Ostrower’s The Air…
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Southwest’s Long Arc Away from Short-Haul Continues
When Southwest first started flying, it was an entirely short-haul airline. This shouldn’t be a surprise, nor should it be a shock…
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Southwest Perfects Social Distancing With 9 People On Our Flight to Puerto Vallarta (Trip Report)
We had originally been planning to go to Hawai’i, but with the weather looking iffy and last minute fares elsewhere nice and…
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Southwest Continues to Blanket the US With Three New Cities
The new city rollouts just keep on coming down in Dallas, and the airline is taking a very Allegiant-esque turn. After putting…
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Flying American and Southwest During the Pandemic (Trip Report)
Other than my Hawaiian trip in October, I haven’t flown anywhere in over a year, so it was with just a little…
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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…