Southwest Mystery Sale
Friday, April 24th, 200950% off flights through June 1 excluding Memorial Day. Use promo code LUVPHL. Deal is today only. New 50% off sale tomorrow. Check back at Southwest.com.
Archive for the ‘LUV’ Category
50% off flights through June 1 excluding Memorial Day. Use promo code LUVPHL. Deal is today only. New 50% off sale tomorrow. Check back at Southwest.com.
LGA-MDW on LUV
Wednesday, April 8th, 2009Tickets are for sale now on Southwest between LGA and MDW. There are 5 daily roundtrips scattered throughout the day. Aside from American's and United's frequent flights to ORD, Delta runs 9 flights a day on the same MDW-LGA route. Pricing has always been competitive on this route, so Southwest's ...
Southwest’s Move to the Center
Monday, December 8th, 2008Ted Reed over at the Street has a nice piece on Southwest's evolution from a LCC to a mainstream player. And, he makes many good points, so check it out. Most importantly, Reed examines on Southwest's "no fee" strategy: Despite all the changes, Southwest is today locked into a defiant effort to ...
LUV/LGA Comment
Wednesday, November 19th, 2008Sorry, I've been busy at work(school) this past week so have been unable to post as much as I would normally prefer. However, I wanted to comment on Southwest's announcement that they are seeking gates at LGA. Given Southwest's move to "Business Select", this should be viewed as a move ...
Southwest Heads South in 2010
Tuesday, November 11th, 2008Southwest was out yesterday with plans to expand to Mexico via codeshare with Volaris. First, Volaris needs to start flying to the United States (Wikipedia mentions Los Angeles). That is supposed to happen in 2009. Then the codeshare needs to materialize the following year. Volaris has a hub in Toluca and ...
Airlines and Wall Street Part II
Wednesday, September 17th, 2008Sorry to harp on stock price, but with the events of the week it is difficult to focus on any other news. So, oil is back up and airline stocks are back down. But, the last three days show a interesting picutre. As noted, I'd argue the overall health of our ...
LUV Credit Cards!
Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008Today Southwest announced they'll be doing away with cash payments on-board and they are very excited about it! So much so that the PR team decided 3 sentences in the press release needed to end with exclamation points, including both quotes from Scott Halfman, Southwest's VP of Provisioning. Examples: "'No more ...
July Traffic
Tuesday, August 5th, 2008A couple interesting things regarding July traffic:1. Allegiant posted a ridiclious 95% load factor for July up from 91% year over year. That is a crazy number. The stock is up 14% up over the past week, jumping 11% today.2. You might be seeing this headline out there: ...
United: Good Luck Flying on November 30th
Friday, June 27th, 2008Do you usually fly United Airlines home for Thanksgiving? Targeting a return date of Sunday, November 30? Think again.Others have noted United's decree to return to the Saturday night stay. Now it appears they are also betting on peak travel days. With the hubub over Southwest's opening of its fall ...
Luv Does Chicago
Friday, June 20th, 2008The Chicago Sun-Times has a quick roundup on a luncheon with Southwest Gary Kelley in which he discussed Southwest's future. Unlike most of the other carriers, Southwest is actually moving forward with a strategy rather than simply reacting to the latest jump in fuel prices. Of course, the article notes ...
