Southwest always claimed to be competing with the private passenger automobile on short segments. If so, they are probably in worse shape than their competitors, for just the reason you mentioned. If people do have to make that 400 mile trip, now, they would much rather drive.
“Southwest always claimed to be competing with the private passenger automobile on short segments. If so, they are probably in worse shape than their competitors, for just the reason you mentioned. If people do have to make that 400 mile trip, now, they would much rather drive.”
Not so much these days, as they now fly between the coasts and flying short distances is (or was) a pain for numerous reasons. Their market is much longer routes now - they’re fine, and now that they’re going to make 80% (or more) of their passengers happy by requiring masks, they’ll be ready to start flying lots of people, once again.