Gee can I be a schedule planner? When southwest announced serving the two I plotted what the service would be. My only error was I pegged two flights to Nashville and one to Orlando from Charleston – otherwise I was right on. Maybe I should publicize my EWR picks so the is a record of them
18 departures? – 5 BWI, 5 MDW, 2 DEN, 2 STL, 2 IAD, 1 LAS, 1 PHX
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Southwest's press release states: "A successful acquisition of Frontier Airlines will allow Southwest to expand its network with its legendary low fares, add jobs into Southwest, and boost competition in Denver and other cities." I don’t see how a merger with Frontier Airlines will accomplish this. There are two reasons for mergers and acquisitions. Enable growth that could not occur without the merger and/or reduce competition. Southwest’s acquisition of Morris Air accomplished the former while the merger with Muse the latter. It appears that an acquisition with Frontier will only do the latter. Southwest is not going to deviate from a part of its business model that is so critical to its profitability – flying one model of aircraft. Since none of Frontiers’ aircraft will become Southwest aircraft and Southwest will not acquire more 737’s than it would if it did not acquire Frontier (indeed the capital used to acquire Frontier could be used to acquire more aircraft) there are only two ways an acquisition of Frontier could enable Southwest to grow faster – Southwest will operate two brands indefinitely (reading between the lines of the press release it appears operating Frontier as a separate band is only a short term plan) or trade each Airbus for a 737 – I'm not sure this is possible.
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04-14-2009
02:56 PM
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Will you print a table showing which markets will get more service and which will get less? Also since you are reducing service in 81 markets but flying the same number of aircraft, that the average flight time per aircraft will decline?
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When will you e-mail the loosers as to why they lost?
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