Brad, Southwest flying to Colorado Springs?

[Plane Nuts]

Hey Brad,
Lately I've been seeing a lot of Southwest 737's landing at KCOS. Is Southwest starting up service here or are these most likely
diverted flights? Seem to be too many for diversions.

[ILikePlanes]

I don't think they do it isn't on the map that Brad posted

http://www.southwest.com/travel_center/r...p_dyn.html

[SWAFO]

Plane Nuts wrote:
Hey Brad,
Lately I've been seeing a lot of Southwest 737's landing at KCOS. Is Southwest starting up service here or are these most likely
diverted flights? Seem to be too many for diversions.

What the hell? COS is on our diversion list, however we don't have many flights that fly over that area (a few a day, but it's certainly not
HEAVY TRAFFIC by any means). I don't believe any have landed there due to required diversion lately. I think you're hallucinating!

NO SWA flights at all have landed in COS for quite some time (perhaps a diversion every now and then, however we have no reason to fly
there). Perhaps we'd add it as a destination in the future, however no plans are in the works for that. Are next airport looks to be CLT
(Charlotte, North Carolina), although I'm not sure on that. We just added RSW on Sunday.

Perhaps you could take some pictures of these "Southwest 737's" landing at COS. I'd certainly like to know more about this! I've got a
few buddies that live up in COS (ex-military pilots), and I'll ask them if they've observed anything similiar.

[ILikePlanes]

Tell southwest to fly to Allegheny county airport in pittsburgh. (I don't know why I think its too small for 737's anyway ) its a small airport

[SWAFO]

Why? We just started flying to PIT. Isn't that enough? We used to fly to both IAH and HOU in Houston, however we stopped that near the
beginning of this year. IAH is just too damn expensive for us to operate out of (plus it's dominated by other carriers). I think we were only
flying to DAL from IAH in the first place, and with the damn Wright Amendment in place, DAL is no good for flying anywhere really!

Go to http://www.setlovefree.com to help support the case to repeal the UNFAIR and UNCONSTITUTIONAL Wright Amendment! Let's show
these politician's and other bureaucratic airline's WHO'S BOSS!!!!!

Join the cause! One and all!

[ILikePlanes]

Why did they make that amendment? whats the point?

That article mentions a lot about "low Fares" that reminds me of the ad (a magazine ad) i'm doing in graphics communications.
( it's a class at school) you can choose anything you want either a product or a service so I chose southwest airlines.



Post Edited ( 10-04-05 21:25 )

[SWAFO]

The website I posted will discuss the amendment in great detail (better than I can). Basically, back when DFW was being built, they
needed to stimulate the growth of the airport. Since it's further from the city than DAL, and is therefore less convenient, they made it so
that carriers could only fly to and from states that border Texas when using DAL as an active company airport. This in turn switched all
the major carriers over to DFW, however SWA was born at DAL, and as such has stayed there. Now that DFW is one of the busiest
airports in the world, it's only fair that they remove the amendment restricting SWA from operating out of DAL (because we will never move
to DFW). Right now, it's just an unfair amendment. DAL is much more convenient for most people in Dallas, and people opposed to
removing the amendment think that it will hurt the other airline's business at DFW. I think not! DFW is HUGE! If the other airlines want,
they're free to move to DAL as well! Nothing except gate availability is limiting them!

[Fritz Bayerlein]

I'd hate to fly across country in a 737! Talk about a slow boat to China...


For a cross-country haul you need your 757 with its Mach .85 cruise man.

[SWAFO]

Actually, you'd be suprised... the difference between cruising at mach .82 and .85 is VERY small! It's not going to get you there an hour
quicker or anything! Cross country is generally about 5.5 - 6.5 hours, depending on the direction you're headed. You'd have to cruise in
the supersonic range to get there much quicker!