DALLAS — Leisure travelers turned Southwest Airlines into a profit-making machine, but Monday’s acquisition of AirTran ... s fleet and route network ensures that the airline will be the ...

Want More News Like This? CAPA Membership provides access to all news and analysis on the site, along with access to many areas of our comprehensive databases and toolsets.

And it will close the book on AirTran itself, the airline that launched its first ... Southwest finished expanding its domestic route system with the addition of a number of AirTran cities ...

Discount airline AirTran Airways today plans to announce new nonstop flights from Los Angeles International Airport to Dallas/Fort Worth, a route now dominated by the nation’s largest carrier ...

AirTran Airways will add a seasonal nonstop flight from Baltimore to San Francisco starting May 26. © 2025 American City Business Journals. All rights reserved. Use ...

AirTran Airways has ceased to exist in an industry that has reshaped itself into something that would not be easily recognized when the Dallas carrier took its first flight about two decades ago.

In 2005, AirTran Airways became the first U.S. airline to offer passengers satellite radio among the in-flight entertainment options. But the XM satellite radio is about to be pulled out of ...

For sale beginning today, AirTran's new BWI-AUA service will begin on Dec. 17, 2011. The airline is celebrating the new route with a special fare of $159 one-way for travel between Dec. 17 ...

Southwest Airlines and its subsidiary AirTran Airways won new route authority from the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) for AirTran to operate international flights to new destinations in ...

For other airlines, especially Delta Air Lines Inc. in Atlanta, it creates an even bigger low-cost rival with more power to set prices on hundreds of routes. AirTran has carved out a profitable ...

For other airlines, especially Delta Air Lines Inc. in Atlanta, it creates an even bigger low-cost rival with more power to set prices on hundreds of routes ... Airways, but analysts think the ...