The recent Air India disaster, which resulted in the tragic loss of 241 out of 242 passengers on a Boeing 787 Dreamliner bound for Gatwick, has once again brought airline safety into sharp focus. The ...

As AirTran flies its final revenue flight, it's time to look at where Southwest Airlines is headed.

With the AirTran chapter closed, what is Southwest 's long-term vision Southwest 's USD1.4 billion purchase of AirTran proved timely as it did allow the airline to quickly expand just as the US global ...

AirTran Flight 1 was long sold out, and more than 800 hopeful travelers added their names to the standby list. Southwest’s Bob Jordan has been running AirTran’s operations for the past few years.

AirTran and Southwest were different in many ways; AirTran offered two class service, operated with a hub/spoke system, and operated two aircraft types, but Southwest offered one class service ...

On Sunday, Southwest Airlines finally shut down its AirTran Airways subsidiary, more than four years after it announced plans to acquire AirTran. This marked another major milestone in the ...

While AirTran certainly carried plenty of point-to-point traffic, particularly on its routes to Florida, its economic model relied primarily on a mix of low-yielding connecting leisure traffic and ...

AirTran Airways, the little airline that made a big difference in Atlanta, has flown its final flight.

When AirTran’s final flight — AirTran Flight 1 from Atlanta to Tampa, Fla. — lands on Sunday night, it will close the book on Southwest’s acquisition that started more than four years ago ...

As Southwest ( LUV ) comes close to completing the integration of AirTran, we assess what AirTran has done for Southwest. In our view, AirTran's most.

A spokesperson for Southwest says the airline it trying to make it easier for travelers with larger planes and more convenient travel times, insists the merger with AirTran is evolving.

AirTran-Southwest merger snarls flight refundAs you probably know, AirTran and Southwest have merged. AirTran is operating as a unit of Southwest, and Southwest most certainly does fly to ...