{"id":156052,"date":"2024-12-09T11:30:16","date_gmt":"2024-12-09T01:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/southwest-airliines-progitability-race-bellingham-guide\/"},"modified":"2024-12-09T11:30:16","modified_gmt":"2024-12-09T01:30:16","slug":"true-colors-how-southwest-airlines-race-to-profitability-left-a-void-in-smaller-markets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=156052","title":{"rendered":"True Colors: How Southwest Airlines&#8217; Race To Profitability Left A Void In Smaller Markets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"44355\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/southwest-airlines\/\"  ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static0.simpleflyingimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/southwest-heart.png\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>Southwest Airlines<\/a><\/span> is a unique airline in several ways. First, it only operates aircraft from one aircraft family, the             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"254988\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><span>Boeing 737<\/span><\/span>. This keeps maintenance and training costs low and allows for fewer interruptions, as the aircraft are extremely similar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The low-cost airline recently pulled all flights from Bellingham, Washington.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,13240,645,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aircraft","category-commercial-aviation","category-southwest-airlines","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=156052"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":156053,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156052\/revisions\/156053"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=156052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=156052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=156052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}