{"id":8520,"date":"2005-10-20T09:23:47","date_gmt":"2005-10-20T16:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2005\/10\/20\/this-week-on-airline.html"},"modified":"2005-10-20T09:23:47","modified_gmt":"2005-10-20T16:23:47","slug":"this_week_on_ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/10\/20\/this_week_on_ai.html","title":{"rendered":"This week on <em>Airline<\/em> &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rockymountainnews.com\/drmn\/business\/article\/0,1299,DRMN_4_4172957,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">Southwest will start service to Denver next year<\/a>.  Huzzah!<\/p>\n<p class=\"block\"> Southwest will enter a market that is already super-competitive: Denver-based low-cost carrier Frontier Airlines and United Airlines both have major operations here. It&#8217;s arrival likely will lower fares on some routes as other carrier match its prices.<\/p>\n<p>The airline has shied away from Denver International Airport because of its high costs. But Southwest said DIA has improved its cost structure enough so that it now makes sense for the airline to come here. Also working in DIA&#8217;s favor: the airport ranked No. 1 in the nation in on-time performance last year ? an important factor for the nation&#8217;s No. 1 on-time airline.<\/p>\n<p>I used to fly SW pretty regularly when I was in Southern California.  Definitely no-frills, but efficient and effective at it.  Glad to hear they&#8217;re coming to Denver at long, long last.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Southwest will start service to Denver next year. Huzzah! Southwest will enter a market that is already super-competitive: Denver-based low-cost carrier Frontier Airlines and United Airlines both have major operations&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":33492,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/05\/01\/frontier-airlines-is-going-to-debundle-itself-out-of-business.html","url_meta":{"origin":8520,"position":0},"title":"Frontier Airlines is going to debundle itself out of business","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 1-May-13 1:09pm","format":false,"excerpt":"When Frontier was first around in Denver, not only were the a great price competitor with United, but their service was excellent, their planes new, their people friendly.The crunch of the airline industry post-9\/11, coupled with an unfortunate merger and the general trends in the airline biz, have made Frontier\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":15588,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/08\/14\/saving-the-airline-animals.html","url_meta":{"origin":8520,"position":1},"title":"Saving the Airline Animals","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 14-Aug-09 7:58pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Republic has won the bidding for bankrupt Frontier Airlines, beating out Southwest.\u00a0 Republic improved its initial $108.75 million offer, removing pre-closing conditions and receiving antitrust clearance as part of submitting what was deemed the best offer for the bankrupt Frontier. The other suitor, Southwest Airlines, said its refusal to remove\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Big Business&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Big Business","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/big-business"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/frontier.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":12320,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/05\/30\/unfriendly_skies.html","url_meta":{"origin":8520,"position":2},"title":"Unfriendly skies","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 30-May-08 10:16am","format":false,"excerpt":"A memo from our corporate travel group: Effective June 1st, 2008. United Airlines has made the decision to terminate our corporate contract due to non performance. 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