Following the acquisition of AirTran Airways, Southwest Airlines announced Monday it will launch a service to the country's largest airport, Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson, including stealing a stop there in the big fish Dallas Love Field.
The Dallas-based airline will offer 15 daily flights to Austin, Houston, Baltimore, Denver and Chicago Midway Airport. The service will start on February 12 with introductory fares as low as $ 79 each way.
The service is a step towards the integration of Southwest AirTran, whose main center is in Atlanta. Southwest Airlines operates as a separate but AirTran plans to fully comply in southwest AirTran few years.
By adding flights to Atlanta, passengers can connect to the Southwest AirTran flight when the two airlines to share flights of code that are expected by mid-2012, said Southwest CEO Gary Kelly.
"We need to cut prices by 30 percent on average," Kelly said in an interview. "For the metropolitan area of Dallas, Love Field in Atlanta will serve for the first time."
Love Field service begins three months after Southwest AirTran ends six daily flights to Atlanta from Dallas / Fort Worth Airport, and is expected to keep prices of tickets in this way. The flight was arrested DFW to observe the requirements of the compromise amendment 2006-Wright, which requires Southwest to give up gates at Love Field if it continues its operations at DFW.
Kelly said Southwest will offer its service to Love Field in Atlanta with a stop in Austin and Houston, and he expects it will add to sales of the company from the airport of Dallas. In 2010, Southwest said it generated $ 216 million of revenue from a call that the compromise has added Wright.
Kelly said that our ability to serve the programming changes will be in Atlanta during the winter. He expects that the total capacity next year to be equal to or slightly less than 2011 aircraft, AirTran is disabled can be converted to the southwest.
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