Originally Posted by
AllYourBaseAreB
Southwest‘s presence in PHL had diminished greatly from peak, years ago. In 2018 AA had 70% of seats, Southwest 8.1%
In 2018 PHL had 31,691,956 passengers. 22,136,137 were AA.
69% Market share. Not enough to maintain pricing power. Not to mention the competition from EWR and BWI. I used to live in Philly and would just drive to BWI.