Article: Airline industry's old business ways just won't fly anymore.

Article: Big Airlines to Struggle against Low-Cost Rivals.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News;  March 18, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... suggests that all big airlines will find it increasingly ... Dallas-based Southwest Airlines Co ... higher costs than Southwest. American's ... will hobble the big airlines' attempts to get ... on 55 percent. Big airlines such as American ... JetBlue Airways and Southwest ...

Article: REGIONALS SKEW BIG AIRLINES' STATISTICS.(News)
The Kentucky Post (Covington, KY);  May 29, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... the whole story for big airlines: As many as half of ... time, second only to Southwest Airlines Co. But include ... effectively allowing big airlines to distance themselves ... for Continental. Some big airlines support combining their ...

Article: Bandits at nine o'clock: despite a recent upturn in the fortunes ...
The Economist (US);  February 17, 1996 ;     700+ words ... ... estimates that outfits such as Southwest Airlines and ValuJet Airlines now ... 4 billion a year. Unlike the big airlines, the new operators expanded their ... likes of Morris Air (now owned by Southwest) caused traffic to double and ...

Article: Big airlines' future cloudy; Low-cost carriers ...
Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN);  September 19, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... their wallets for the big airlines has proved to be illusory ... carriers such as JetBlue, Southwest and AirTran, having ... That's forcing the big airlines to quickly cut their ... Northwest and the five other big airlines watched $15.2 billion ...

Article: What's up with the perception of big ...
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  April 19, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... bad times came and the big airlines had to hack away all ... the dismal showing by big airlines in a new passenger survey ... JetBlue, Alaska, Southwest and America West. Each ... the highest-ranked big airlines, finishing fifth and ...

Transcript: Big Airlines vs. Small Airlines, CNNfn
Street Sweep (CNNfn);  September 10, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... airlines can weather that. The big airlines really can`t as much because ... today. Let`s talk about Southwest Airlines Southwest Airlines Company; Ticker: LUV; URL: http://www.southwest.com/>. Now where ...

Article: Rising Costs, Low-Fare Carriers Could Spell Doom for Big ...
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News;  April 8, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... expansion. Discounters such as Southwest flew in just 159 of the top ... network -- compared with Southwest and other discounters. But ... revenue. The solution for big airlines isn't to abandon their busy ... airports and to try to emulate Southwest's point-to-point schedule ...