Posts Tagged ‘Southwest Airlines’
When Life Gives you Lemons, Throw Them Away
Southwest Airlines is going green however, it’s not the “green” you think. No, they are not introducing a new way to be champions of the environment. There “green” is a little more involved in the cold hard green. They are looking so save money by cutting lemons from their flight.
Early campaigns involved slogans like: “Check out our fleet, now with fewer lemons flying.” or ” Green, cause Yellow bites.” (Just kidding) Southwest is cutting lemons but will keep their citric brother the lime on flights. This comes from an evaluation of waste within the airline. “At the end of our 3,200 daily flights, we found an excess of lemons and needless waste,” says Southwest spokesman Brad Hawkins.
The customer preference seems to be that of limes anyhow. I personally, am a lime man and couldn’t care less for the exile of the little yellow sourheads. By getting rid of the lemons offered during flight Southwest looks to save $100,000 a year from it’s budget. For those of you who prefer lemon to lime, you have until October 1st to say your goodbyes.
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Southwest Early Boarding Fee
Southwest is implementing a new policy to attract more revenue. At this point in time Southwest does not charge for bags like the other airlines and cannot draw from this income for profitability. Right now, if you pay and extra $10 dollars per flight you can be a part of the early boarding process along with Business Select passengers and their frequent flyers. Their hope is that this will draw the extra revenue the other airlines are getting from checked baggage fees.
This comes at a time when Southwest Airlines is facing Problems with the FAA over unauthorized parts in their jets and flight cuts out of Midway. Seventeen destinations will be cut from the current locales they serve to accommodate for the reduction in passengers in the current economic downturn. West coast destinations like San Francisco will be hit the hardest but, Pittsburgh will also feel the impact as two of their six nonstops to Midway are cut. If this new $10 early boarding fee does not have the desired impact, fees for checked bags may not be far off.
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