Are longer flights a threat to Southwest Airlines
Are longer flights a threat to Southwest Airlines - 1
Nope
With regards to long-haul flights (e.g. Intercontinental flights), Southwest may basically follow two different strategies:
-- either start operating low cost long-haul flights directly or through a specialized subsidiary This is the option that has been implemented for instance by Norwegian, Wow Air and Jetstar Airways that operate both short/medium-haul flights and long-haul flights.
Of course, this option has specific requirements (appropriate planes for intercontinental flights, requested local authorizations,.).
-- or conclude agreements with low cost airlines that operate long-haul flights in order to allow passengers to combine flights of both companies (compatible air schedules, no recheck-in at the stopover,…).
This is the strategy followed by the British low cost airline Easyjet that has agreements with Norwegian: passengers may combine a short/medium flight in Europe of Esayjet with a transatlantic flight of Norwegian and vice versa. Ryanair intends to follow a similar strategy.
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They can be.
Airlines fly where they do.
Passengers go where they want to go.
If they are the same place it is good.
Passengers will take the Airline that gets them to destination.
Southwest and all other Airlines count passenger travel between various points on the planet. Each Airline allocates their fleets in such as way as to maximize the number of seats they fill on each flight.
Not much point flying nearly empty planes.
Southwest can expand to further away places if they want too. It is not complicated.
Have the Appropriate Aircraft for the distance. Having Landing Arrangements at destination fill with passengers.
Like all Airlines they guess if they will get enough passengers at a high enough price to cover the expenses.of a particular new route. Some routes might be seasonal or maybe once or twice a week to start off.
All depends on if enough passengers want that flight.
No. Southwest could do long haul flights if they wanted to, nothing is legally stopping them. But instead of saying being like spirit and charging a really low price and trying to make it up in miscellaneous fees and service charges, southwest just sticks to short, high demand routes that they can fly multiple times a day with very few unsold seats. They are able to undercut other airlines without cutting back on service of comfort simply doing just that, flying only high demand shorter routes.
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