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Concourse B is solely used for United Airlines flights. It has 72 gates, including four double jetways and several regional gates. [47] Concourse C is primarily used for Southwest Airlines flights, as well as American Airlines, Alaska Airlines, and most regional airliner flights. It has 47 gates, including four ground-level boarding gates. [47]
Southwest built a 5-gate international terminal at William P. Hobby Airport that opened in 2015. Southwest also built a 5-gate international terminal in Fort Lauderdale that opened in 2017. [9] In 2021, a 5-gate extension of terminal A at Baltimore/Washington International Airport opened. Southwest is the sole occupant of Terminal A and it ...
Southwest Airlines was founded in 1966 by Herbert Kelleher and Rollin King, and incorporated as Air Southwest Co. in 1967.Three other airlines (Braniff, Trans-Texas Airways, and Continental Airlines) took legal action to try to prevent the company from its planned strategy of undercutting their prices by flying only within Texas and thus being exempt from regulation by the federal Civil ...
Southwest Airlines and People Express tried low-cost service to Denver in the mid-1980s, but Southwest withdrew and People Express was acquired by Continental. [19] In September 1982 the first revenue flight of the Boeing 767 arrived at Stapleton, a United flight from O'Hare International Airport in Chicago. [20]
The service is the first jet service at the Telluride airport. On June 1, 2019, the airline began its first Essential Air Service (EAS) contract at Alliance Municipal Airport under the Denver Air Connection brand, using the Fairchild Swearingen Metroliner. The service offers 12 weekly round trips to Denver.
Lamar Muse was elected President and CEO of the non-operating Air Southwest for a three year term starting Jan 1, 1971. Muse, a Texas native, was a veteran airline executive, having been employed at five different carriers since starting his industry career in 1948, including being the CEO of Central Airlines and CEO and part-owner of Universal Airlines, turning around the financial fortunes ...
The Denver International Airport Automated Guideway Transit System is a 24/7 people mover system operating at Denver International Airport in Denver, Colorado.The system opened along with the airport itself in 1995 and efficiently connects the distant concourses with the main terminal (named the Jeppesen Terminal).
Frontier ceased operating in 1986, and a new Frontier Airlines was established in 1994 with Boeing 737 flights to Albuquerque and Denver. Southwest Airlines began flights from El Paso to Dallas, Lubbock, and Midland/Odessa in 1977 using Boeing 737-200's and continually added new service, becoming the largest carrier at El Paso by the early 1980s.