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...Then, just before Christmas, came the winter storm that triggered a cascade of nearly 17,000 flight cancellations at Southwest, overwhelming the airline’s creaking software as it struggled to match crews...
...Airlines including United Airlines and Virgin Atlantic are hoping to use them to ferry business and first-class passengers rapidly to airports to board long-haul flights....
...Southwest Airlines and Spirit Airlines have also had service failures in the past three months....
...James Coulter, a founding partner of private equity group TPG, likens the shift to the arrival of discount carrier Southwest in the US airline industry....
...The biggest airlines, such as BA, would lose more than a little leverage to new entrants such as Virgin, Southwest Airlines and Ryanair, whose lower costs, rapid growth and cheap tickets would help democratise...
...British Airways was up 1.1 per cent to 194¾p after Credit Suisse chose the airline as its preferred pick in a European sector note....
...Not long after joining a software company, Mr Kelly learnt Southwest had an opening in its finance department. By the 1980s, Mr Kelleher and his airline were the toasts of the Texas business community....
...“The hardware and the software of the US airlines are behind their competitors. Anyone who flies on Etihad [the Abu Dhabi-based airline] would not get back on a US airline....
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