How Southwest was won: Albany lured low-fare airline
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Southwest Airlines Co will start offering flights on May 7, 2000, from Albany, NY, to Orlando, FL, Las Vegas, NV, and Baltimore, MD. The airline was attracted to Albany partly because of the committment of state Senate majority leader Joe Bruno to spend $6.2 million in state funds on an addition to Albany's airport in 1999. Aside from a $162 million renovation carried out in 1998, an additional $28 million was dedicated on parking and control tower work in 1999.
Publication Name: USA Today
Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 0734-7456
Year: 2000
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Airlines go head-to-head with Southwest
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Southwest is set to experienced increased competition staged by other airlines as the economy continues to flourish and carriers position to benefit. Continental Airlines, for one, will challenge Southwest in Dallas Love Field, whereas American will battle Southwest with new flights between Nashville, TN, and Los Angeles, CA. Southwest, which others avoid in competition for its low costs, will also be challenge with the launching of US Airways' low-fare MetroJet on the East Coast and United's Shuttle on the West Coast. The new initiatives means slower growth for the dominant airline, but analysts do not believe that the company will be battered badly.
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Is set to experienced increased competition from other airlines as economy continues to flourish & carriers position to benefit
Publication Name: USA Today
Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 0734-7456
Year: 1998
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Safety calls heighten checks on American West
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American West, the ninth-largest airline in the US, has been placed under temporary heightened surveillance due to many anonymous complaints on the airline's safety hot line received by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). The order means that the FAA will conduct extra inspections at American West over the next number of weeks. American West has stated that the airline is following all safety standards and that the complaints received by the FAA are associated to labor-union disagreements.
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Has been placed under temporary heightened surveillance due to many anonymous complaints on its safety hot line
Publication Name: USA Today
Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 0734-7456
Year: 1998
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