SWA just waiting to pounce
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This is our second service addition in as many weeks (IND & PDX). The NYTimes article said the others were a result of deciding not to retire planes.
Southwest Airlines Announces New Service in Denver
Southwest Airlines Adding Five New Nonstop Flights and Three New Destinations
DALLAS, May 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Southwest Airlines announced today an expansion of its service in Denver with five new nonstop flights and three new destinations. The additional service includes new nonstop flights between Denver and Sacramento, Ft. Lauderdale/Hollywood, and New Orleans. The Company also announced it will add one additional daily nonstop flight between Denver and Phoenix (for a total of seven). Flights are available for booking today for travel beginning on Aug. 4, 2008. To take advantage of these new Southwest Airlines flights, visit: http://www.southwest.com/?src=PR_NS DEN_050708.
"Denver's strategic location fits nicely into our network, and we are delighted by the response we have seen to our service and growth in the Mile High city," Southwest Airlines CEO Gary Kelly said. "We have been able to consistently grow according to our plans in the two plus years since we returned to Denver, which is typical of how we enter a market this size."
BEGINNING AUG. 4, 2008:
-- Two new daily nonstop roundtrips between Denver and Sacramento.
-- One new daily nonstop roundtrip between Denver and Ft.
Lauderdale/Hollywood.
-- One new daily nonstop roundtrip between Denver and New Orleans.
-- One additional daily nonstop roundtrip between Denver and Phoenix (for
a total of seven).
Southwest Airlines began service to Denver on Jan. 3, 2006, with 13 daily nonstop departures to three destinations. The airline currently operates 61 daily nonstop flights from the Mile High city, making Denver the fastest growing city in the Company's history.
http://www.southwest.com
SOURCE Southwest Airlines
Southwest Airlines Announces New Service in Denver
Southwest Airlines Adding Five New Nonstop Flights and Three New Destinations
DALLAS, May 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Southwest Airlines announced today an expansion of its service in Denver with five new nonstop flights and three new destinations. The additional service includes new nonstop flights between Denver and Sacramento, Ft. Lauderdale/Hollywood, and New Orleans. The Company also announced it will add one additional daily nonstop flight between Denver and Phoenix (for a total of seven). Flights are available for booking today for travel beginning on Aug. 4, 2008. To take advantage of these new Southwest Airlines flights, visit: http://www.southwest.com/?src=PR_NS DEN_050708.
"Denver's strategic location fits nicely into our network, and we are delighted by the response we have seen to our service and growth in the Mile High city," Southwest Airlines CEO Gary Kelly said. "We have been able to consistently grow according to our plans in the two plus years since we returned to Denver, which is typical of how we enter a market this size."
BEGINNING AUG. 4, 2008:
-- Two new daily nonstop roundtrips between Denver and Sacramento.
-- One new daily nonstop roundtrip between Denver and Ft.
Lauderdale/Hollywood.
-- One new daily nonstop roundtrip between Denver and New Orleans.
-- One additional daily nonstop roundtrip between Denver and Phoenix (for
a total of seven).
Southwest Airlines began service to Denver on Jan. 3, 2006, with 13 daily nonstop departures to three destinations. The airline currently operates 61 daily nonstop flights from the Mile High city, making Denver the fastest growing city in the Company's history.
http://www.southwest.com
SOURCE Southwest Airlines
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That should put the final nail in the coffin of the walking corpse known as "Frontier Airlines"
Buwahhahahahahahahahaha
WNrforlife
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That should put the final nail in the coffin of the walking corpse known as "Frontier Airlines"
Buwahhahahahahahahahaha
Buwahhahahahahahahahaha
and that is funny why? pretty insensitive of you laughing at all those employees who will be out of a job. grow up . it could very well happen to wn . nothing is guaranteed in the airline business. nothing.
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etops,
I agree with you totally. This goes both ways, you have to admit though that there will be a lot of people that will have that smile on their face when WN starts to lose money. Right now the only thing saving them is their hedges.
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Southwest has done nothing but ruin this industry. Go back too regulating this industry. #### southwest
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You're entitled to your opinion, but you should know that Southwest was around several years before deregulation. And be careful what you wish for - reregulation may well result in the shrinkage of all the airlines (read that as job losses). And that would impact Southwest as much as anyone. Sadly, even if that were to occur, WNrforlife claims to be a long time employee of Southwest (I tend to doubt that, but that's another thread) - so he/she would not be impacted by shrinkage.
Ruin the Industry?????? HOW?
By running a profitable company while still treating it's employees with respect and paying them well?
By being smart enough to hedge fuel? Which, by the way, will never "run out". You buy hedges with cash, which WN has tons of by being profitable! A never ending circle.
As a former Deltoid, I saw how bad executives can ruin a company and scr*w the employees just to make themselves rich so I can appreciate WN's managment team a fun loving culture.
Nuff of my rant.....
I'd like to thank WNrforlife for once again proving that he does not "live the Southwest Way". :down:
I, and several others I know, have been blessed by excellent service from Frontier. Good People, Cool Concept. BK is just a really rough place to be in this economy.
I think the latest service announcements, and the NYTimes article pointed out that the target is really United. It'll be shedding something in a merger with USAirways, and SWA is making decisions while we have metal and money to do it. Denver is being a great market for us, and were showing the LUV by bringing more aircraft.
IMHO
I, and several others I know, have been blessed by excellent service from Frontier. Good People, Cool Concept. BK is just a really rough place to be in this economy.
I think the latest service announcements, and the NYTimes article pointed out that the target is really United. It'll be shedding something in a merger with USAirways, and SWA is making decisions while we have metal and money to do it. Denver is being a great market for us, and were showing the LUV by bringing more aircraft.
IMHO
DLtoWN,
Could you [or anyone] please post the fuel hedging terms @ WN for 2009 ? Thank You
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According to this article WN is 55% hedged @ $51/bbl. That percentage will almost certainly increase before the end of the year.
Jim
BoeingBoy, Thanks for the information.
I believe that other airlines [Usairways] also have fuel hedges in place.
Do you know if this is true or not ? Thanks
approximately 70% of estimated 2008 fuel at approximately $51 per barrel;
approximately 55% of estimated 2009 fuel at approximately $51 per barrel;
over 25% of estimated 2010 fuel at approximately $63 per barrel;
over 15% of estimated 2011 fuel at approximately $64 per barrel;
over 15% of estimated 2012 fuel at approximately $63 per barrel.
And, as BoeingBoy said, more are being purchased as they go along.
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True for most airlines of any size. For example, US has about 55% of 2Q08 hedged at between $70 & $80 something/bbl - meaning those hedges pay off if the price is above that range.
The biggest problem in trying to compare hedge positions between airlines is that there are some differences in hedge instruments used, some (like WN) give data further into the future than others, and finding a single point in time that data is available for all the airlines is somewhat difficult.
Jim
