Southwest’s plans for AirTran’s hub at Atlanta

Southwest Airlines (Dallas) is making plans for its subsidiary AirTran Airways’ hub at Atlanta according to this article by Bloomberg. Some markets will be dropped and the Boeing 717-200s will probably be gradually replaced. The number of daily departures is expected to be trimmed around 13 percent to around 175. WN will add new service to larger markets and rely less on connecting. WN also expects a $1 billion increase in annual revenue from ATL.

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In other news, Southwest for the ninth year, kicked off the University of Texas/University of Oklahoma NCAA football game weekend with a pep rally to support both team and the annual Southwest Pigskin Plane Pull at Dallas Love Field (both teams play each other today in Dallas). According to WN, “More than 500 Southwest Employees came out to Southwest’s Maintenance Hangar to watch Fellow Employees compete on behalf of UT or OU to see who could pull an 83,000-pound Boeing 737 across 50 yards the fastest.”

Boeing 737-3H4 N391SW (msn 27378) wore the special nose emblem this year.

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Photo of “Red River Rivalry” logo on N391SW: CLICK HERE

AirTran Slide Show: CLICK HERE

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