Minuteman
I HAVE STRONG OPINIONS ABOUT AUTOMOTIVE LIGHTING!
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DALLAS: Southwest Airlines might add smaller planes to its fleet
Bloomberg News - Southwest Airlines Co., the discount carrier that flies only Boeing 737 jetliners to keep costs low, will consider adding smaller aircraft, CEO James Parker said.
Dallas-based Southwest flies four types of 737s, eliminating the cost to train crews and mechanics, and maintain parts for planes made by other manufacturers. JetBlue Airways Corp., a low-fare carrier that flies Airbus SAS A320s with 162 seats, is ordering smaller jets under a $3 billion contract.
"That whole issue of smaller airplanes is not something we are going to ignore," Parker said. "We're going to look at it, in light of the new technology that's available.
"Southwest is the only major U.S. airline to post profits since the September 2001 terrorist attacks as competitors had losses exceeding $20 billion. Expansion by low-fare carriers will force Southwest to start serving markets where rivals such as JetBlue fly, or move into smaller cities, said Dan Kasper, an airline economist for LECG LLC, a legal and economic consulting group in Cambridge, Mass.
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This doesn't exactly say much and I'm sure there have already been lots of threads speculating on this, but this one caught my eye because its somewhat legitimate.
DALLAS: Southwest Airlines might add smaller planes to its fleet
Bloomberg News - Southwest Airlines Co., the discount carrier that flies only Boeing 737 jetliners to keep costs low, will consider adding smaller aircraft, CEO James Parker said.
Dallas-based Southwest flies four types of 737s, eliminating the cost to train crews and mechanics, and maintain parts for planes made by other manufacturers. JetBlue Airways Corp., a low-fare carrier that flies Airbus SAS A320s with 162 seats, is ordering smaller jets under a $3 billion contract.
"That whole issue of smaller airplanes is not something we are going to ignore," Parker said. "We're going to look at it, in light of the new technology that's available.
"Southwest is the only major U.S. airline to post profits since the September 2001 terrorist attacks as competitors had losses exceeding $20 billion. Expansion by low-fare carriers will force Southwest to start serving markets where rivals such as JetBlue fly, or move into smaller cities, said Dan Kasper, an airline economist for LECG LLC, a legal and economic consulting group in Cambridge, Mass.
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This doesn't exactly say much and I'm sure there have already been lots of threads speculating on this, but this one caught my eye because its somewhat legitimate.