{"id":990,"date":"2016-04-11T02:03:53","date_gmt":"2016-04-11T07:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=990"},"modified":"2016-04-11T02:06:23","modified_gmt":"2016-04-11T07:06:23","slug":"southwest-airlines-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=990","title":{"rendered":"Southwest Airlines News, St. Louis Lambert Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"

Southwest Airlines News<\/strong>, gate expansion at the St. Louis Lambert International Airport. The airport has undergone new renovations since it lost the\u00a0Trans World Airlines hub following its acquisition by American Airlines back in 2001. The new look includes\u00a0a paint scheme\u00a0and\u00a0chairs\u00a0sporting the colors\u00a0of Southwest Airlines, which now dominates the airports traffic these days. In fact, Southwest is operating so many flights out of St. Louis now that it will be\u00a0opening 2 new gates this week. The new gates reflect Southwest Airlines new\u00a0dominance over\u00a0the airport. It occupies all of Terminal 2, and controls\u00a0nearly half of the\u00a0airports passenger traffic.\u00a0The 2 new gates, numbered E31 and E33, are expected to handle 12 flights a day in the beginning, expanding\u00a0to 16 in June when new\u00a0flights are added to Cleveland, Oakland, and Portland, Oregon. This will give Southwest more than 100 daily departures to over\u00a040 nonstop destinations from St. Louis.<\/p>\n

Southwest Airlines News, 737 Fleet Renewal plans<\/h2>\n

Southwest Airlines plans to use some of the extra revenue it has generated the last few years to\u00a0accelerate its fleet renewal plans.\u00a0Southwest ended 2015 with 704 aircraft in its fleet, including the addition\u00a0of 19 new Boeing 737-800 and 24 Boeing 737-700\u00a0aircraft. It also\u00a0retired 4 of its older Boeing 737’s during the year. In December, the company updated its planned\u00a0delivery schedule to include 33 more\u00a0737-800 planes, and converted\u00a0its remaining order of another 25 737-700 aircraft\u00a0to the 737-800\u00a0model. The updated delivery schedule is estimated to increase\u00a0their aircraft capital expenditures\u00a0by $400 million going forward. Southwest Airlines currently has an average aircraft\u00a0age of 12.4 years. This leads its US\u00a0competitors United Airlines, which has an average age of 13.6 years, and Delta Air Lines with an average age of 17.1 years. American Airlines now has the best average fleet age of the big four, coming in at\u00a011.2 years. Southwest Airlines reported a net income of $2.4 billion in 2015, a massive increase over the\u00a0$1.4 billion it reported in 2014.<\/p>\n

\"Southwest<\/p>\n

Image from\u00a0www.southwest.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Southwest Airlines News, gate expansion at the St. Louis Lambert International Airport. The airport has undergone new renovations since it lost the\u00a0Trans World Airlines hub following its acquisition by American Airlines back in 2001. The new look includes\u00a0a paint scheme\u00a0and\u00a0chairs\u00a0sporting the colors\u00a0of Southwest Airlines, which now dominates the airports traffic these days. In fact, Southwest […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[45,43,41,180,84,252,253,181],"class_list":["post-990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation-news","tag-45","tag-american-airlines","tag-boeing","tag-delta-air-lines","tag-southwest-airlines","tag-st-louis","tag-twa","tag-united-airlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990","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=990"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":995,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990\/revisions\/995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}