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Old Mar 3, 2016 | 10:04 pm
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Originally Posted by TennisNoob
UA is talking about growth at this time? Lol.

Does anyone have Southwest's # to show if it's actually Oil that's killing UA 100% or is WN grabbing the marketshare?

Yes oil hurts but people still have to fly.
When I was looking at flights out to West Texas WN's fares from HOU-Midland were just as high with a free stop in Dallas, if not higher than UA's direct flight from IAH-Midland.

WN is probably showing growth simply because they have opened so many more routes. If you exclude the international routes, the results might look similar.
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