The Blog Is Back
By Don Nadeau, on April 19, 2009, in Airfares, Travel
With a move to a new platform, WordPress, and to a new host, Media Temple, I’ve regained the ability to post here. Soon, the blog will regain the appearance that you expect from BidonTravel.
The last post in March said merely that Southwest would probably be serving New York City. Of course since then, the carrier finalized its lease at LaGuardia, with flights starting in June, and announced flights to Boston’s Logan Airport starting in August.
These cities, as well as new service to Minneapolis, mark a departure from Southwest’s traditional strategy to dominate a market, because at least until another airline goes bankrupt, Southwest will access few gates at these airports.
The new airports (with more surely to come) seem designed to fill in holes in Southwest’s route system for its most loyal customers, who simply do not like traveling on other airlines, as well as gaining new customers in large markets.
