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Southwest Closes Four Stations Amid Ongoing Boeing Delivery Woes
The airline lost $231 million in the first quarter of 2024. (airlinegeeks.com) Más...
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Sub-headline “The airline lost $231 million in the first quarter of 2024” should lead to some analysis in the article of factors causing the loss. But…nothing, nada….not great journalism. Sorry I wasted time reading it.
Thanks for sharing. But I think it might be due to the fact that they don’t have enough planes.
I think Southwest’s loss happened not because they don’t have enough planes, but because operating the planes they do have didn’t generate enough revenue to cover their costs.
Adding more airplanes to their fleet wouldn’t magically solve the structural problem of costs exceeding revenue.
Adding more airplanes to their fleet wouldn’t magically solve the structural problem of costs exceeding revenue.
Yeah, not much journalism there, just regurgitation of the corporate press release, which was itself full of nonsense.
If they are losing money on each flight, more planes would just help them lose money even faster. If they're just losing money on these routes, then the justification should be that these routes weren't paying off, so we're re-deploying those assets to more profitable ones. The fact that the press release tries to blame it on Boeing says there's something else and they're trying to deflect attention from what's really going on.
If they are losing money on each flight, more planes would just help them lose money even faster. If they're just losing money on these routes, then the justification should be that these routes weren't paying off, so we're re-deploying those assets to more profitable ones. The fact that the press release tries to blame it on Boeing says there's something else and they're trying to deflect attention from what's really going on.
if you have been in and around the airline industry for a few years,you have seen the ins and outs,the growths,diappearance and mergers of various carriers from small ones to large ones,and you have an understanding of the economics involved..southwest was founded in the 70's,as a sort of "folksy" carrier,who was to fly within the state of texas..they expanded with government approval, but kept their home base of operations at love field in dallas even with dfw coming along and due to government regulations...later on the management made decisions to compete with the "big boys",and still try to advertise as the "cheap fare carrier" with "luv"..it served their purposes for employees and maintenance to maintain a fleet of only on type of aircraft..the issue with boeing has affected them probably just a bit more than some other airlines..as far as pulling out of a few "stations",houston for example,several years back they tried serving customers at both iah and hou,and after a few years,they went back to hou for all flights,and also did massive renovations with the city of houston, to the terminal and baggage areas..well,as fate would have it, a few years ago they tried both hou and iah again,and were doing ok iah-dal (not dfw),as that service is very limited (if at all)..the announcement to cut that service,as well as some other mayabe less profitable routes,most certainly is due to the boeing issue as the southwest fleet of 737's are aging,and they need to tighten their belts and consolidate route structure with the planes and people they have..rest assured they are either offering buyouts or moves to available airports for affected employees at the ones they are leaving..by the way, the term "station" has been used for years rather than airport,and even employees of carriers refer where they work as "my base station is"...particularly flight crews..
That must be a southwest thing, I've never heard a flight crew refer to their base as "my base station"
At the regionals, we called them out stations. Smaller towns subsidized by EAS where you prayed nothing broke because being stuck out there usually meant waiting until the next day before parts would even arrive. But, wherever you were “based” out of wasn’t considered a station, just home base. I left the airlines years ago, so it may have changed…
