The amount of flights that DEN does hasn’t changed all that much. It’s RON’s that’s changed. It’s the largest base with the most flights of any city SWA flies. It has about 10% more flying than LAS. Yet LAS has on average 3 more RON’s. LAS, BWI, DAL have just more EMO’s which creates more RON’s. DEN is more of a hub and spoke for SWA. They treated it as another p2p operation which didn’t work or didn’t meet their expectations. So now they intentionally bank some flights. DEN will still be the biggest base for quite some time. Their is not a single domicile that has more space, more availability of gates and expansion than DEN. SWA is no where near max capacity there. The big question is what is the hiring going to look like over the next twelve months. With Boeing being allowed to increase production on the Max’s, SWA will be the biggest beneficiary next year of airplane deliveries. Question is how many deliveries next year and how many retirements will SWA do. We won’t know until end of January when they report earnings. Since the summer schedule is available for sale, it looks like the fleet will not change all that much. Even though piloting staffing is more of function of the CBA.
Last edited by REF 5; 11-18-2025 at 07:44 AM.