XPost: rec.travel.air, alt.travel   
   From: olive@LOSETHIScalpha.com   
      
   Clark W. Griswold, Jr. muttered....   
      
   >   
   > SWA has plenty of potential long distance city pairs to choose from -   
   > they don.t need to create a battle with AA.   
   >   
      
   I suspect that WN might envision HOU/COS and AUS/COS and with AA's big   
   cutbacks in STL, a case could be made for a STL/COS or STL/MCI/COS.  A   
   number of the ski and summer resorts are in some respects more accessible   
   from the Springs, although the traffic on I25 has become emotionally   
   boggling.  WN has begun to operate some strange and far distant city pairs   
   with limited "direct", even non-stop flights, and apparently, they have a   
   "Skunkworks" office (reporting directly to a high management level) with a   
   small but inventive staff who mull over all sorts of wild schemes.   
      
   Some of the places WN serves such as Lubbock, Texas, a city of 200,000 or   
   so with substantial competitive air service, are not so strange when   
   looking at the map and realizing how long a drive they are from anywhere   
   and how much business traffic they generate.  "Boarding" numbers tell a   
   tale that population and location don't always reveal.   
      
   TMO   
      
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