Monday, September 27, 2010

BING! Southwest Airlines to purchase AirTran, giving it access to Atlanta Hartsfield and DC National airports, as well as a few locations in the Caribbean.

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  1. Watts9:26 AM

    That was my first thought when I heard news of the merge: ATLANTA!  V. excited to have another player in the ATL market.

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  2. It also gives SWA its first gates at Memphis and DFW (will be interesting to see if they swap those gates), and gives them a much more significant footprint at LGA.

    Actually, Memphis may be one of the most directly affected fare-wise, since it's so completely dominated by DeltaNorthwest that SWA could change things a fair bit.

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  3. patricia9:45 AM

    YAY!  I love SWA and hated that I couldn't fly them from Atlanta!

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  4. Awesome.  I always wished that Southwest flew into Atlanta....

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  5. Joseph J. Finn10:13 AM

    Every Dragon*Con attendee just squealed in delight.  Finally, Southwest to Atlanta!

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  6. I'm just hoping this doesn't make Mrs. Russ -- who hates to fly -- frightened of SW.  She still holds the whole Florida crash against AirTran (then ValueJet). 

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  7. Meghan10:31 AM

    Please let SW come into Charlotte.  Please let SW come into Charlotte.  Please let SW come into Charlotte.

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  8. Andrew10:40 AM

    <span>I'm glad I'm not the only one who avoids AirTran on principle of fear of death. Well, more likely fear of death than on other airlines.</span>

    That this also gives Southwest more of a presence at LGA can only be a good thing.

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  9. This is terrible news.  Instead of trying to compete with AirTran's low fares, the legacy carriers now only have to compete with the inflated fares of Sexual Harassment Airlines.  Wonderful.

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  10. They're coming to Greenville, that much I know. When, I don't know.

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  11. I'm excited about this news.  I fly Southwest out of BWI all the time, but prefer DCA, which is smaller, easier to get to (for me anyway), has closer parking, shorter security lines, and more Dunkin Donuts.  Win all around.

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  12. Watts1:22 PM

    Oooh, I'd love to see them in Greenville as much as I want them in Atlanta.  I'm equidistant (time-wise) to ATL and GSP and GSP is a more pleasant drive and I'm assuming the airport itself is much less of a nightmare.

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  13. Adlai5:47 PM

    GSP is delightful, in that it has easy parking and something like 10 gates. I assume certain things will have to change (i.e., more gates, more parking) before Southwest comes, but it's a tiny regional airport with lots of land around it. It's also (according to 1 newspaper article I read) the third most expensive airport in the country, so this can only improve things.

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  14. Having flown in and out of GSP several times a couple of summers ago, agreed--tiny airport desperately in need of more facilities.  In particular, I once had a 2-3 hour departure delay after I'd crossed security, and there was quite literally NOTHING in that terminal--not even a news stand--just a half-ass "snack bar."  There's plenty of physical space for expansion, though.

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  15. Didn't this also get them into LaGuardia?  I'm not sure about that, but I feel like their flights were always from Long Island when I looked before.  I'd be ever so pleased for a little more low-fare competition out of our beloved NYC airports.

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  16. I used to fly ValuJet in and out of Chicago.  

    One time, the guy who checked our bags showed up 15 minutes later to check us in at the gate, then put on the ear protection and picked up the glow sticks and the wheel chucks and went outside to wave the plane in.  He did it all with an attitute that said "don't even ask me man this is just my day job i'm a musician for crying out loud."

    Another time I was seated next to a hydraulic engineer traveling on the airline's dime for a job in Chicago.  He was cheerful and friendly but looked like an extra from Sons of Anarchy.  He said he usually worked on boats and didn't understand why airplane engineers were so up-tight compared naval engineers.  He also said that he loved to travel for business and had found over the years that it was possible to have a great time in any town in America, confiding that the secret to doing so was to always have the number of a good local bail bondsman.

    Between those characters and the whole BYO food scene I have to admit I miss ValuJet.

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  17. The Pathetic Earthling3:56 PM

    I really harbor no fear of flying -- I used to have my pilot's license and have a couple of hundred hours behind the stick -- but I have the same basic aversion to Alaska Airlines given the Alaska 261 crash in 2000.  I think, perhaps, is that I spent part of a time at a wedding later that year talking to a Navy diver who did recovery at the crash, but I don't want that kind of ride down into the ground.

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  18. Southwest isn't allowed to use gates at DFW, so those will be sold.

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