Bailing out

[lisa]

Originally posted by sycamore
I'm not exactly sure, but these would be my posits as to why Southwest does well, and is flying almost all its flights right now...

There are a couple more that I know of:

Southwest uses ALL the same planes. Ergo they only have to have one type of spare parts and ALL flight crews can fly ANY of their planes.

They set their schedule to absolutely minimize the amount of time that a plane spends on the ground (I believe their original goal was 30 minutes from landing to take-off for each airplane). Their attitude is that a plane on the ground is NOT generating revenue.

The CEO of Southwest, I believe, wrote a book about their business plan. Never read it myself, but a friend said it was a good read. If I remember correctly, it's called "Nuts" (could be "Peanuts", I'm not certain).