Gonna be tough to lose that ETOPS lift during the height of the Caribbean travel season, on top of the new routes out of DAL.
ETOPS? SWA is long way from that. 95% of the a/c are 717's. Mostly or all the 737's will be over or at Everett getting redone. SWA will just have keep those pop tops around longer to fill the void. They will have plenty of airplanes to do the flying. The real question is what to do with all the pilots(on the airtran side).
I sincerely hope they cannot negotiate an agreement to extend unless it is part of a comprehensive section 6 agreement. No side letters on this issue.
I'm on the outside looking in and I hope your right. If SWA management wants it that bad then they need to talk about in section 6. HUGE bargaining chip. I would assume even if they agree to it, you have to vote on it?