Originally Posted by JS
More costly fuel, increasing LCC competition from airlines with drastically lower wage rates, and WN labor that is very well paid and would be pretty hard to cut (WN is 100% unionized) means the future is going to be tough.
And don't forget that SW's LCC competition has, in some ways, better amenities, like an IFE service of some sort. And now that SW has "enhanced" one of the last few things it had going for it, I will shed no tears if, in a few years, SW gets creamed by the competition.