Wow. Just Wow. Three special agents to escort a <acronym title="VASP (Brazil)">VP</acronym> thru customs? Let me do a quick compare and contrast to how things were done over at the little airline at Love Field with the ugly colored planes and no assigned seats. The airline so many a.netters love to ...
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Jump to postForget the analysts. If you are not privy to <acronym title="Southwest Airlines (USA)">WN</acronym>'s books, then neither they nor you have any way of knowing whether or not <acronym title="Southwest Airlines (USA)">WN</acronym> is making money in Denver. However, gnaw on this for a moment. <acronym...
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Jump to postIt wouldn't help your friend but on <acronym title="Southwest Airlines (USA)">WN</acronym> there is no penalty for "hidden city" ticketing. You can't check bags to the hidden city, though, but I was managing with a carry on and a lap top so no sweat. I was flying <acronym title="Dallas - Love Field ...
Jump to postI do this all the time...when the cheap seats on the AUS-DEN or SAT-DEN are all gone and I end up buying AUS-DAL connect to DAL-AMA-DEN or DAL-TUL-DEN or DAL-OKC-DEN or even DAL-ABQ-DEN if I am in the mood for a roller coaster ride thru the thermals over the New Mexico desert in the summertime.. Che...
Jump to postEven as far back as the late 50s/early 60s Trans-Texas (later Texas Intl, now Continental) had a sign on their DC3s and Convairs that read "cigarette smoking only."
Jump to post1. Airline. Choose WN. If WN wasn't flying the route, we would not be having this conversation. You would not be able to afford to fly. The average fare in both m arkets but especially MHT dropped dramatically when WN inaugurated service into Philadelphia. 2. Airport. While I am not exactly sure whe...
Jump to postI can appreciate a lot of folks who think Kelleher at <acronym title="Southwest Airlines (USA)">WN</acronym>. Of course, Jerb was a lawyer who did nothing to put <acronym title="Southwest Airlines (USA)">WN</acronym> together. He was handed a money machine and to his great credit, he did nothing to ...
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Jump to postGerard J Arpey Total Compensation: $686,2955 Gerard J Arpey has been CEO of AMR (AMR) for 2 years. Mr. Arpey has been with the company for 23 years . The 46 year old executive ranks 9 within Transportation Education College: University of Texas Austin BBA ' 80 Graduate School: University of Texas Au...
Jump to postSC: I'm still waiting on my airplane ride.
OpnlGuy: Glad to see you're still alive.
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Jump to postHere are the rest of the city pairs: Norfolk, VA Ft. Lauderdale, <acronym title="Airtran (USA)">FL</acronym> 781 165.77 $162.18 $0.21 <acronym title="Southwest Airlines (USA)">WN</acronym> 44.36 Norfolk, VA Miami, <acronym title="Airtran (USA)">FL</acronym> 802 81.33 $213.25 $0.27 US 38.93 Norfolk, ...
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Jump to postLet's look at existing traffic in/out of <acronym title="Minneapolis / St. Paul - International / Wold Chamberlain Field (MSP / KMSP), USA - Minnesota">MSP</acronym> for a moment. These are all the markets which generate at least 200 psgrs perz day. Data is from Q1 2007: CITY --- CITY --- DISTANCE -...
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Jump to postGary Kelly's mantra seems to be "back to the future." I say that because the decision to add shorter haul (<acronym title="San Francisco - International (SFO / KSFO), USA - California">SFO</acronym>-<acronym title="Los Angeles - International (LAX / KLAX), USA - California">LAX</acronym>, <acronym t...
Jump to postI am a fan of <acronym title="Southwest Airlines (USA)">WN</acronym> but ppromise not to let that cloud my comments. I lived in El Paso for 3 yrs 2002-2005. My job with the US Govt required that I fly on the contract carrier at the govt Y fare. That was generally either <acronym title="Southwest Air...
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Jump to postWith <acronym title="Southwest Airlines (USA)">WN</acronym> planning on inaugurating <acronym title="San Francisco - International (SFO / KSFO), USA - California">SFO</acronym>-<acronym title="Los Angeles - International (LAX / KLAX), USA - California">LAX</acronym>, I decided to take a peek at a co...
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Jump to postSorry...I don't like <acronym title="Delta Air Lines (USA)">DL</acronym>, but I didn't omit them intentionally. 1 Atlanta, <acronym title="Garuda Indonesia">GA</acronym> New York, NY <acronym title="Delta Air Lines (USA)">DL</acronym> 236430 2627 47.37 $215 2 Atlanta, <acronym title="Garuda Indonesi...
Jump to postIt cut off the end; Here is the rest: --- CITY PAIR / CARRIER / # PSGRS <acronym title="Fortaleza - Pinto Martins (FOR / SBFZ), Brazil">FOR</acronym> QTR / AVG PSGRS <acronym title="Perth (PER / YPPH), Australia - Western Australia">PER</acronym> <acronym title="Dayton - James M. Cox Dayton Internat...
Jump to postPerhaps this will generate some discussion. The DOT 1st Qtr 2007 Stats are out and when you download them and manipulate them as an excel spreadsheet you can find out all sorts of neat stuff. What constitutes a heavily travelled route? Ask 100 different A netters and you will probably get 100 differ...
Jump to postRemember, you heard it here first: By the end of calendar year 2009 Southwest will carry as much O&D traffic between SFA and <acronym title="Los Angeles - International (LAX / KLAX), USA - California">LAX</acronym> as United. American and Virgin will bring up the rear....if Virgin is even still in t...
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Jump to postSouthwest has had pass exchange agreements with other carriers since day one. It has nothing to do with interlining, baggage transfer, code share, or CYA in the event of mechanical type situations. Initially, the only carrier that exchanged passes with Southwest was American....although Southwest of...
Jump to postWell, if you have looked at Southwest's scheule additions for the next several months you'll see that they continue to make their Love Field to Non <acronym title="KLM CityHopper (Netherlands)">WA</acronym> cities schedules more robust and palatable. Lots of decent one stops....including <acronym ti...
Jump to postOkay, I'll wade in. Yes, El Paso was a Continental stronghold from way back....as was Midland/Odessa. <acronym title="Continental Airlines (USA)">CO</acronym> routed "Glden Jet" 707 and 720 service from Houston to California via El Paso....primarily because I don't think the CAB gave them nonstop au...
Jump to postI guess I will have to wade in, since I was at <acronym title="Dallas - Love Field (DAL / KDAL), USA - Texas">DAL</acronym> Gate 25 on June 18, 1971 for the <acronym title="Houston - George Bush Intercontinental (IAH / KIAH), USA - Texas">IAH</acronym> inaugural...I was on the 4:45 pm <acronym title...
Jump to postAs a <acronym title="Southwest Airlines (USA)">WN</acronym> apologist, albeit an objective one...let me start out by saying rumors of their demise are greatly exaggerated. Unlike the so-called major carriers.....any changes at Southwest will be incremental. The changes we've seen at United, Delta, N...
Jump to postLet's see how this works. What I have done is take the <acronym title="Zambian Airways">Q3</acronym> 2005 passenger figures from the DOT and compared them to the results from 2006. Some things we expected to see have come true.....fares have fallen, passenger traffic is way up. When did they start a...
Jump to postRe: Atlanta. The solution to the Atlanta problem for <acronym title="Southwest Airlines (USA)">WN</acronym> is for Dobbins to become a joint civil/military use facility. Folks who scream that the solution is to just keep making Hartsfield bigger are just deluding themselves. If an airport gets too d...
Jump to postIf we were to peruse the airliners.net archives, I would imagine you could find a thread where I (and other folks) made comments to the fact that Neeleman was real good at starting an airline, but that the jury was still out on whether or not he could run one. I think the jury has returned with a ve...
Jump to postYou can't say it's a shame.....a man of 86 years who has lived life to the fullest and succeeded beyond one's wildest dreams....who, in the process, made a lot of people rich. I guess you can say it's sad to see him go, it's true that he is seldom recognized for everything he did for the airline ind...
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