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Southwest Intensifies Boston Turf War With JetBlue And AirTran
The outlook for the 2010 airline industry is unremittingly bleak, but you wouldn't know it from the way that Southwest is acting. The low cost carrier is adding 104 flights to its spring schedule. In the process they're turning the Boston turf war they started with JetBlue and AirTran into a full-blown bloodbath:
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Baltimore Airport Not Hip to Free WiFi
Last week Baltimore celebrated the unveiling of the first TSA checkpoint in the country -- and by celebrated, we assume they mean "did nothing whatsoever to mark the occasion." What they should have done was sprayed it with some ceremonial Purel, since the first cases of swine flu were also officially announced last week, but that might have caused more panic than it was worth.
If you failed to get that first special checkpoint a present -- perhaps, a 3.3-ounce bottle of poison -- you still have time to send it a proper e-card, but you'll have to pony up $7.95 for WiFi access in the terminal. If only the TSA would pony up for that.
So what's your favorite TSA checkpoint? Sarcasm fully installed, tell us what airport has the best or worst wireless access. No one has to know it was you.
Related Stories:
· TSA Announces Successful Implementation Of Federal Passenger Screeners At BWI’s Piers A and B Security Check Points [TSA via the Internet Wayback Machine]
· 6 likely cases of swine flu in Maryland [Baltimore Sun]
· Airport WiFi Map [Jaunted]t
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JetBlue 'Protects Its Turf' By Adding Boston-BWI Flights
Once upon a time, America's Low Cost Carriers were united in fighting against the big bad airlines by providing cheaper fares and a better flying experience to passengers. Now, the LCCs have turned on each other. And it's not pretty. Actually, wait. Yeah, it is pretty especially if you want cheap flights.
JetBlue not only announced some unreal one-way airfare deals from its SoCal aiports ($99 Burbank to NYC, $29 Long Beach to Vegas) but now The Baltimore Sun reports that JetBlue has just added nonstop service from Boston to Baltimore/Washington International (BWI.) No offense to the folks in Baltimore but this is purely a move to piss off Southwest which has also announced plans for Boston flights in the fall.
One airline analyst said JetBlue is probably trying to protect its turf in Boston. Southwest could also serve people in Florida and other destinations from those same flights, further threatening some of JetBlue's territory.
The flights will begin in September and fly four times a day. And the introductory rate will be $10 cheaper than Southwest's introductory fare. And let's not forget AirTran is already on that route. But if you can choose between SW and JB why would you ever choose AT? No word on whether Virgin America will add BWI to its new Boston gates just yet.
Related Stories:
· JetBlue coming to BWI in September [B'More Sun]
· JetBlue adds BWI, sets stage for showdown with Southwest [USA Today]
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Tweeting Without Sucking: Our Tips For BWI
Who doesn't want to give Baltimore a leg up? Charm City has enough to contend with in the unflattering portrayals drawn by everyone from urban-renewal reporters to "The Wire," so residents like Michael Phelps and (guilty?) David Simon are determined to show its lighter side. But you know what would really impress us about Baltimore? An airport Twitter account that doesn't suck.
