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Fuel Costs, Vacancies Spur Southwest Changes
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Southwest's strategy in response to sluggish economic growth and slower passenger volume is to pare glights in low passenger routes and shift to add flights in routes with high demand, an example is the Denver airport which has high numbers of passengers. Southwest will increase flights from Denver and add cities it flies to from Denver. It will also take advantage of weakness of Denver based Frontier airlines. Southwest will reduce flights in some routes like Chicago to Las Vegas abd Baltimore to Ft Lauderdale, eliminating 17 roundtrips.
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