{"id":23609,"date":"2024-03-30T21:45:45","date_gmt":"2024-03-30T11:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/is-southwest-airlines-still-a-low-fare-carrier\/"},"modified":"2024-03-30T21:45:45","modified_gmt":"2024-03-30T11:45:45","slug":"is-southwest-airlines-still-a-low-fare-carrier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=23609","title":{"rendered":"Is Southwest Airlines Still A Low-Fare Carrier?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For decades, Dallas-based <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/southwest-airlines\/\">Southwest Airlines<\/a> has been known for its low fares and flash sales, offering one-way tickets for as little as under $30. However, as the industry continues to evolve and operating costs continue to rise, the question of whether the airline could still be considered a <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/low-cost-carrier\/\">low-cost carrier (LCC)<\/a> seems to be up for debate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An executive of a European low-cost powerhouse has questioned the carrier\u2019s primary strategy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"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":[396,595,4744,7097,7098,1041,794,1368,645,615],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-aviation-news","category-checked-baggage","category-extra","category-fees","category-low-cost-carrier","category-passengers","category-ryanair","category-southwest-airlines","category-ultra-low-cost-carrier"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23609","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=23609"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23610,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23609\/revisions\/23610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}