A court battle that the newly founded airline won, due to Herbert Kelleher being a fantastic lawyer in his own right! By , the newly formed airline began to operate regularly scheduled commercial flights. The airline stayed within its Texas-only boundaries. In , the airline officially started using its now famous name, changing it to Southwest Airlines Co. In , the airline expanded to flying to several other Texas destinations, and by , Southwest began flying to neighboring states, after the regulations that Southwest had tried to avoid in the past, had been lifted.
Southwest as of yet, has not joined any airline alliance , nor does it publicly show any interest of doing so. Many called Southwest out for it being too monopolistic, as it was an act of airline consolidation. There are many reasons why the airline is so successful.
Many of these were traits sewn in by the founders, but some have been picked up along the way…. The only time that this was not the case was during a period between and , where they operated a small fleet of s.
Even when Southwest Airlines bought out AirTran Airways in , they leased out the old, non members of the AirTran fleet to other airlines in order to keep their only fleet. By only operating one type of aircraft in their fleet, the airline is able to keep their operating costs low. That is to say, ramming in as many people as possible in to as small an airliner as possible. Well, it has, just not to the extent that other airlines have done! However, Southwest does.
A two hour flight from England to Spain on Ryanair may not have in-flight entertainment. But a two hour long flight from Denver to Phoenix on Southwest Airlines certainly will!
Due to this focus on the passenger, Southwest Airlines has acquired a loyal customer base. A customer base that allow Southwest to be one of the largest airlines in the country! They never have done, they probably never will do.
However, Southwest Airlines encourages them. They actively encourage their employees to join the unions! The public face of Southwest Airlines for a generation, hard-drinking, chain-smoking, always-leave-'em laughing Herb Kelleher, finally stepped away from the carrier earlier this year. Kelleher's bonhomie masked the discipline that Southwest has had throughout its history. The airline has always avoided fads and eschewed anything that increased costs or complicated the basic travel proposition.
When it has changed—last year it ended its infamous cattle-call boarding process to favor its most frequent fliers and highest-fare customers—it has done so without slowing down the movement of aircraft. Management ranks are lean, but well compensated and, most importantly, productive. I once calculated that the top executives of Southwest generated 10 times more revenue per dollar of compensation than did the C-suite types at some of the network carriers.
Network carriers have railed for decades about the power of their employee unions. But guess who's the most unionized carrier in the nation? Southwest, of course. The airline says that 87 percent of its employees belong to a union. Southwest has never had a strike, and now that the network carriers have whacked away at salaries and benefits, Southwest staffers are generally the highest paid in the industry.
But since Southwest has about 30 percent fewer employees per aircraft than its network competitors, it has the lowest non-fuel C. Southwests strategy is to improve efficiency and pass cost saving to its passengers by offering them low prices. The bases on which Southwest builds its competitive advantage is by putting employees first. Southwest Airlines Co. LUV has become a staple of travel for consumers within the United States. Targeted advertising serves the purpose of placing particular advertisements before specific groups so as to reach consumers who would be interested in the information.
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More like St. Louis on an aging MD with a pack of peanuts. No offense to St. Bad airlines began to merge with other bad airlines, creating bigger, even less likable airlines, every loyalty program I tried ended up so diluted as to be nearly worthless.
After more than ten years on the job as a travel writer, I was focusing mostly on North America, which I greatly enjoyed; I was also ready to never get on a plane again.
Then I tried Southwest.
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