Entries tagged "Southwest Airlines"
Comments made by a Southwest Airlines Co. executive late Wednesday about the discount king's expansion strategy have rekindled industry gossip that the airline might seek a deal with rival, smaller discounter AirTran Holdings Inc. ...
While New Yorkers eager for lower airfares undoubtedly have reason to cheer Southwest Airlines Co.'s plan to begin service at LaGuardia Airport, there is ample reason to suspect the discount king has no plans to build a major presence in the Big Apple -- at least any time soon....
Undoubtedly when the postmortem is written on the current stock market collapse, there will be examples of industries and companies who fell not on fundamentals but rather were simply caught in the downdraft. According to one prominent analyst, the U.S. airline business appears to be a good example of an industry that has been punished by Wall Street despite improving prospects....
