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    Southwest says AirTran to exit six airports

    Reuters – Fri, Jan 20, 2012

    (Reuters) - Southwest Airlines Co said on Friday that its AirTran subsidiary would stop operating at six U.S. airports this year because of higher fuel costs.

    Airports that will lose AirTran service as of August 12 are in Allentown and Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; Lexington, Kentucky; Sarasota, Florida; Huntsville, Alabama; and White Plains, New York. Southwest said in a statement that AirTran workers at those airports would have a chance to move within the company once those operations ended.

    AirTran operations will continue at 22 U.S. and international airports in such places as Charlotte, North Carolina, Washington, D.C., and Cancun, Mexico, and will eventually be converted to Southwest.

    AirTran President Bob Jordan said in the statement the company was discontinuing service in markets it could not make work because of fuel costs.

    Southwest acquired AirTran last year, gaining access to big East Coast markets such as Atlanta. The carrier expects to receive a single operating certificate in the first quarter, but until then must operate AirTran as a separate entity.

    Shares of Dallas-based Southwest were up 1.3 percent to $9.42 in afternoon trading on Friday.

    (Reporting by Karen Jacobs)

     

    7 comments

    • RC
      RC  •  1 mth 6 days ago
      Big loss for Sarasota, but every knew it was coming when Southworst took control of Airtran. They need to get the most out of their Tampa route and Airtran an hour south had to go.
    • pizza dude
      pizza dude  •  1 mth 5 days ago
      southwest blows. no charge for bags??? yea, but their tickets are double other airlines and they lose more bags than they deliver.
    • Matt
      Matt  •  1 mth 5 days ago
      Horible airline, you can fly on a full service airline, pay for bags and still the southwest ticket prices are higher for low service. Taking southwest is like riding the bus.
    • Erik
      Erik  •  1 mth 6 days ago
      Wonder if Southwest will pull AirTran out of DFW ?
    • Steve Masucci
      Steve Masucci  •  1 mth 6 days ago
      It's a Bad day for us using Air Tran in Sarasota,
    • ron r
      ron r  •  1 mth 6 days ago
      Southwest, the yellow cab of the air. They haul Americas white trash and Fat Girls.
    • Wayne Hall
      Wayne Hall  •  1 mth 6 days ago
      put that in your PIPE and smoke it obama
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