Originally Posted by knope2001

Several questions come to mind...obviously it's really early to know, but speculation is fun...


(a) Business class expanded to the entire fleet or dropped?

(b) Assigned seating...with or without AirTran's fee...expanded to the entire fleet or dropped?

(d) Wifi expanded to the entire fleet or dropped?

(e) The 717 is something of an orphan airframe, but does WN benefit from having something smaller than the 137-seat 737, and if so is it the 717? Or it the 717 fleet going to be walled off into the legacy AirTran neetwork until it can be replaced by the 737, even if that means dropping some smaller markets?

(f) What of Milwaukee, considering Southwest simply does not need MKE for east-west flow like AirTran does?

(g) Will this cook the 16-departuere/day MKE feeder operation of Skywest? Or will they consider replicating this elsewhere?

(h) Will ATL see pounding growth like Denver has, and if so how soon?

(i) Southwest typically doesn't run a station with fewer than about 8 flights per day. There are around thirty AirTran cities under that tier, and unless Southwest changes their strategy, will they be dumped just like most of the smaller Morris stations?

(j) Interlining?

(k) GDS or only at southwestairlines.com?