Originally Posted by
Profane Kahuna
SAT airport authority has been spitting in the company’s face for years now.
With limited aircraft numbers, the company can’t service every market at the frequency the traveling public desires.
Network planning pick winners and losers and if the city up I-35 is offering more incentives and the city down I-35 is giving grief then the airplanes get flowed to Austin and our customers in San Antonio end up on Frontier or Delta.
I mean this literally just played out in real time and Austin won more flights.
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I very highly doubt that had anything to do with the end decision. These are two stories being convoluted as one. SAT is a valuable market, but they aren't Austin. Both will continue to be big parts of the network. SWA lost in SAT. They won in AUS. Those things happened independently and for different reasons. They would have loved a win in both places, but it wasn't to be.