Originally Posted by
alggag
Southwest also has their hands tied a bit in being late to the game on a lot of routes and more importantly route authorities. For example, they are forced to fly routes like SNA-SJD/PVR/MEX. Though there's more competition over at LAX but it would also give way more connecting traffic. Similar situation over at SAT for SAT-MEX... HOU-MEX would make a lot more sense but besides the issue of waiting for the international terminal there's also the problem that there are no available route authorities for HOU-MEX.
Except Kelly says, "these routes were performing very well on AirTran," so his problem wasn't "being late to the game." It was re-staging successful runs across so many different stations. Route architecture is the foundation of an airline's product - and seat mile costs benefit from the economies of traffic density. Southwest seemed disdainful of FL's strategies and strengths.
Last edited by LegalTender; Nov 12, 2014 at 4:03 pm