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Southwest Airlines summer 2016 schedule is out
The second Houston flight returns, presumably again (just) as a summer seasonal. That gives us seven flights a day from CLT on from early June to early August: 2 x…
Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport
airport near Baltimore, Maryland, United States
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Southwest Airlines extends its flight schedule
Through Monday, April 11, 2016 The airline is still offering the exact same six flights a day from CLT that it is now: 2 x Baltimore, 2 x Chicago Midway,…
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Southwest Airlines summer 2015 CLT schedule
If you were hoping that Southwest would add some flights from Charlotte, you’ll be disappointed. The summer schedule is out, and it’s more of the same: 2 x Baltimore…
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Leef examines the troubled TSA
George Leef’s latest column for Forbes probes — no pun intended — problems associated with the federal Transportation Security Administration. The TSA has an annual budget of $7.9 billion and…
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Southwest Airlines adds a flight from CLT
Southwest loaded the first portion of its summer schedule today, and it includes a seventh flight from Charlotte. The additional service is a second flight to Houston Hobby (HOU); Southwest…
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Southwest Airlines summer schedule is out
And if you were hoping that they’d increase their flying out of Charlotte in it, you’d be disappointed. It lists the same six flights: 2 x Baltimore (BWI), 2 x…
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Southwest Airlines in CLT: Like CHS or RDU?
So how much of an impact will Southwest Airlines have when they start flights from Charlotte? Great question. First, understand that in the eastern U.S., Southwest is not a point-to-point…
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Southwest Airlines (AirTran) very likely to drop CLT-ATL
Been working on an analysis of what impact of Southwest Airlines’ purchase of AirTran will have on the Queen City. It was getting kind of long, so I decided to…
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Southwest Comes To Town Q&A
Did some more research and slept on the Southwest/AirTran announcement. Let’s just say, there are a lot of subtle ramifications to this. So here’s a Q&A to try to explain…
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Southwest Airlines To Serve CLT
Southwest Airlines today announced that they are acquiring AirTran Airways. And with that move, Southwest will enter the Charlotte market. Analysis: This is a game changing move in U.S. aviation.…
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AirTran Does It Backwards
One of the most basic things about the air travel biz is that demand is not equally spread out across the week. Simply put, more people fly on Mondays, Thursdays,…
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Catching Up With JetBlue and AirTran
Charlotte’s airfares are keep reasonably competitive in part because of the presence of two low-fare airlines, AirTran and JetBlue. Time to catch up on some strange interesting developments by the…