{"id":2836,"date":"2018-10-16T08:35:53","date_gmt":"2018-10-16T13:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=2836"},"modified":"2018-10-16T08:35:53","modified_gmt":"2018-10-16T13:35:53","slug":"southwest-balks-at-american-airlines-new-idea-for-cuba-routes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=2836","title":{"rendered":"Southwest Balks At American Airlines New Idea For Cuba Routes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"content__segment combx\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Southwest ripped American&#8217;s proposed rule change that would alter how U.S. airlines handle their routes to Cuba, calling the idea &#8220;unprecedented&#8221; in an Oct. 10 regulatory filing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"content__segment combx\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">The U.S. opened up the Cuban market a few years ago and allowed airlines to apply for routes. Only 20 daily routes to Havana were allocated to U.S. airlines.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"content__segment combx\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Both American Airlines Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: AAL) and Southwest Airlines Co. (NYSE: LUV) were granted routes. When an airline is awarded a route, it&#8217;s tied to that specific city. So, an airline can&#8217;t shift its route allocations to different U.S. cities to match demand.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Click the link below for the full story!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/dallas\/news\/2018\/10\/15\/southwest-american-havana-cuba-route.html?ana=yahoo&amp;yptr=yahoo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Southwest balks at American Airlines<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-2837\" src=\"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Havana-213x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"970\" height=\"1366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Havana-213x300.jpg 213w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Havana.jpg 569w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 970px) 100vw, 970px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Southwest ripped American&#8217;s proposed rule change that would alter how U.S. airlines handle their routes to Cuba, calling the idea &#8220;unprecedented&#8221; in an Oct. 10 regulatory filing. The U.S. opened up the Cuban market a few years ago and allowed airlines to apply for routes. Only 20 daily routes to Havana were allocated to U.S. airlines. Both American Airlines Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: AAL) and Southwest Airlines Co. (NYSE: LUV) were granted routes. When an airline is awarded a route, it&#8217;s tied to that specific city. So, an airline can&#8217;t shift its route allocations to different U.S. cities to match demand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[797,89,1397,868,1103],"tags":[629,525,118,116,1875,56,1076,630,766,246,1876,243,1877,299,915,1429,303,1762,1874,186,907],"class_list":["post-2836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airline-news","category-aviation-news","category-stock-news","category-transportation-news","category-travel-news","tag-aal","tag-air-lines","tag-airlines","tag-american","tag-charlotte","tag-cuba","tag-cuban","tag-dal","tag-dallas","tag-delta","tag-department-of-transportation","tag-dfw","tag-dot","tag-havana","tag-jfk","tag-luv","tag-miami","tag-route","tag-rule-change","tag-southwest","tag-tampa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2836"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2838,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2836\/revisions\/2838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}