Tag Archives: Southwest Airlines
Miami or Fort Lauderdale?: American and Southwest duel on Cuba service in official government documents
The thawing in relations between Cuba and the United States has provided another front in the continent-wide battle between Dallas-Fort Worth area airlines. American Airlines and Southwest Airlines depending on the metric you use are two of the five largest airlines on the planet and both want to serve Havana with multiple daily flights from […]
Silver Airways adding more North Florida service
Fort Lauderdale-based Silver Airways announced on Monday it is adding new nonstop service from Pensacola to Jacksonville with same-plane service onward to Silver’s hub in Fort Lauderdale. The airline is also adding new service to Panama City with nonstop service to Orlando and Tampa. Last week, Silver announced new service to St Petersburg/Clearwater from Fort […]
Farewell AirTran
AirTran Airways which prior to its 2011 purchase by Dallas-based Southwest Airlines was headquartered in Orlando flew for the last time on Sunday. The airline has now been fully integrated into Southwest. The final flight was between Atlanta and Tampa. AirTran’s lower cost structure and non-union workforce has now been integrated into higher-cost and heavily […]
High Speed Rail passes Florida by while the rest of the world cashes in
Florida should have been the leader – beginning in the late 1980’s High Speed Rail was talked about as a potential driver for the state’s economy. Florida would once again be the national leader, the first to innovate much as the Askew/Graham years had pushed Florida to the forefront of progressive business-friendly reforms nationally. Then […]
The Florida Squeeze 