WNjetdoc
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Hot off the press, we will start Dulles service, IAD, in the fall, starting off with two gates. You heard it here first.
Here is a link.... New city for SWA
Here is a link.... New city for SWA
New City...hot off the press.
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wnbubbleboy
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That's GREAT! Maybe BWI will treat us better now that they are not the only game in town.
wnbubbleboy
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You Scooped me.
Shhh....on the working hard bit though. Your going to ruin my street credibility with the other stock clerks.
wnbubbleboy
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We were just talking about the same thing here at the shop. Who knows what bones the long range planners are throwing to look into the future.
My guess is Independence Air took a big enough bite out of the company's rear in the BWI area they may be just covering it now with IAD.
wnbubbleboy
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There are people here in Baltimore that have never gone to DC and it's only 40 miles away. As far as Baltimore and DC they are close in geographic terms but as far as demographics go they are worlds apart. There's two different markets here that we can carry.
ELP_WN_Psgr
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No two metro areas are exactly alike. The Washington DC area is not the same as the Houston area is not the same as the Dallas/Ft Worth area is not the same as the Chicago area is not the same as Texas' tropical and sunny Lower Rio Grande Valley ©.
I see BWI and IAD as something more like Providence and Manchester.....or Burbank and John Wayne.
I would say that the biggest problem with going to DFW is not its location, but rather that Southwest does not relish being #47 for takeoff behind a line of silver Mad Dogs that were passed by turtles, various crawling insects (but not slugs) enroute from the gate to the runway threshhold.
I think IAD is a pretty interesting idea, actually. It allows Southwest to sandwich Washington National on either side. It also allows WN to show up in government bid fares to Washington. As you know, government travel offices look at the contract carrier for various routes.
If booking to Washington, the government contract carrier will show up on flights to both DCA and IAD. To look at the contract fares in and out of BWI, the office actually has to pull up data for Baltimore.
Now here is the biggest question. When do they tie all this up with the big prize. New York City. And how? Does Southwest counter a B6 incursion in to Islip with their own service to JFK? Does Southwest somehow manage to extend their apparent truce with CO (Hobby vs IAH, and at CLE) with WN flights in and out of EWR? Or does WN give somebody a whole bunch of money to buy some space at LaGuardia?
Tune in tomorrow for "As the 10-minute turns".
Flying Titan
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Great announcement for DC area pax after the loss of DH. Tough news for UA as it tried to re-build its hub. Has SWA given indication of how many new airports it plans to announce this year?
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WNjetdoc
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I we at SWA can do whatever we want that fits into our business plan and we can deviate from said plan whenever the heck we want!! Don't like it, tough poopie,.
Can't go back to my above post and make corrections, I hate it when they don't allow you to correct your post.
I meant to say, "We at SWA", not, "I we at SWA".
Now for you "Fixer"...its my job man, :groovy:
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I can see 5x MDW, 3x MCO, 2x TPA, 1x PHX, and 1x LAS.
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