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Then why is Southwest the only airline in the news? Wouldn’t weather impact all airlines equally

• ceejayoz 5y ago
  Southwest is notable for being different; they use a single aircraft type, point-to-point routing over hubs, and started the low-cost airline trend. The same argument applies to the vaccine hypothesis, incidentally. If it was the mandates, the other airlines who instituted mandates should've been similarly affected.
• ncallaway 5y ago
  That is also addressed in the article. > Jordan said it was particularly the line-flow system that Southwest uses as part of a point-to-point network that made it harder for Southwest to recover than other airlines with heavy exposure in Florida, such as American, which has a hub in Miami as part of its hub-and-spoke network. > “We’re not hub and spoke, and we do very little out-and-back,” Jordan said. “So when you stop a line, you’re stopping a line where the aircraft is attempting to flow across the country.”
  • ZanyProgrammer 5y ago
    Isn't Chicago Midway a de facto hub for Southwest, even though they don't call it that?
    • Alupis 5y ago
      Yes, SWA has 11 hubs, even though they refuse to call them that. There's even a list on the wikipedia[1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwest_Airlines https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwest_Airlines
• knownjorbist 5y ago
  Southwest was affected by far the largest, being the largest. But they are not the only ones affected.