What about a Houston to Boston Route? Atlanta to Philly, New York, Boston, South Florida, and DC? and a Reagan-Dulles Route Reorganization and schedule adjustment which could provide direct service from Chicago Midway, Atlanta, and Maybe Milwaukee to DCA and service from Saint Louis and/or Houston to Dulles. Some of your newer markets are markets where people have choice and People can get that with some small efforts by this airline
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The acquisition really changes the dynamics of the business. It seems to make more sense now to do things like adding service in Cincinnati, putting a 3 to 4 city schedule in Memphis, expanding Minneapolis/Saint Paul Service to Florida, Milwaukee and Baltimore , and expanding in Boston
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Well why serve Pensacola Now? Is it a deal breaker? The same would apply to DFW and Maybe Newport News and maybe Akron/Canton where Dallas Love, Norfolk, and Cleveland may be the more preferred destination respectively.
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Nashville might not get screwed since Atlanta has a large number of O and D passengers. It would likely make more sense to route connecting traffic through Nashville and maybe Saint Louis where its easier to get off the ground. Oh and you should love the fact that you may have absolutely No Problem gettin to New York at a good price.
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I want to know how Southwest will be able to perform early on at Atlanta Hartsfield when they have no history of service at that location. The Hub would be similar in size to Chicago Midway and built in a much shorter period of time. It will be alot of fun to see the marketing creativity used in Atlanta.
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Greenville is an interesting destination. It is between Delta and Airtran controlled Atlanta and Us Airways Controlled Charlotte. It has a rather solid metropolitan population and a number of universities in the immediate proximity including Clemson. This destination should perform rather well. I see flights to Nashville, Orlando, Baltimore and Chicago initially.
Southwest in Charleston appears to have a different feel to it than Airtran in Charleston. Southwest should succeed where Airtran failed. Southwest can own this market in no time.
Overall, I think this was a very good decision. I look forward to seeing Southwest in Cincinnati. Everybody knows that Delta would dramatically reduce service in favor of Detroit.
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And note that American had an intention to cut capacity when they bought TWA. Delta has to cut when Cincy and Detroit are down the street from each other. US Airways cut before they merged and lacked the ability to do much of it afterward. United would cut but nobody wants to merge with them. Southwest, Airtan and Jetblue, on the other hand, want to grow. Southwest may grow significantly and with the potential to dominate a key market that will keep jobs in Denver for a very long time. So chill it out, OK!
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This transaction between the Southwest and Frontier is unlike the deal between ATA and Southwest. ATA remained an independent company with its own staff and debt obligations. They downsized as a result. Southwest picked up some of their staff. This is a complete buyout. Hence, Southwest assumes responsibility for the entire airline along with much of its fleet and the staff pending antitrust review. Staff Pay will fall under union guidelines in most instances. Nobody, not even management, knows for sure if they will have to furlough staff other than ADMINISTRATION but if that happens, you won't be fired by yourself. It is, however, very unlikely when there is attrition and an ability to transfer to another city. So relax, let them do business, support economic recovery, get ready for some new training and non-rev more efficiently to new cities
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Frontier would not necessarily disappear if Southwest didn't buy them. That is evident by Republic's Bid. Frontier is valuable and should be commended for their work as a carrier. I never saw at them at the bottom of one customer survey. Not One!
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What math are you doing to believe that a twenty percent reduction in fleet will equate to a 20 % job loss. It is not like they are able to retrain a staff and furlough a staff at the same time. They actually need to be overstaffed during transition
Of course, you will see some capacity come out of Denver with a combined carrier, but much of that will be to make the operation profitable. Once profitable, Southwest will seek to add additional service into other markets.
Job loss, if any, for a limited time can occur through attrition so stop wining and crying. You will be able to feed your children if you are legitimately good at what you do.
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Houston Intercontinental service will probably be replaced with Houston Hobby Service. If you listen very carefully, they said that they would keep Frontier's markets. Theat does not necessarily mean that they would keep all airports. Houston is served fine by Houston Hobby
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So does this mean that we will see new flights on Southwest from Denver to Pittsburgh, Denver to Cleveland, Denver to Washington Dulles, Chicago to Atlanta, Baltimore to Atlanta and Potential entry into Cincinatti within the next year on top of picking up the vast majority of Frontiers current service?
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Southwest has in the past given up slots at Washington Reagan, fought to not operate at DFW, chosen Cleveland and Pittsburgh over Akron-Canton, chosen to codeshare rather than offer offer flights to Mexico, and chosen not to operate commuter carriers. How does this all become part of Southwest Business structure?
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