[hedgie]

The first Houston flights Southwest actually made began at Bush, back in 1971, but the carrier moved service to Hobby the next year. "After all," Herb Kelleher, co-founder of the airline, said at the time, "why should our customers have to drive 45 minutes to take a 40-minute flight?"

Not if they are in the Woodlands they don't. I would think Southwest would stay in to serve this market...

[Archangelsk]

I would think Southwest would stay in to serve this market...

Only if the leadership at Southwest were die-hard Communists and Socialists would they do so. Read the book Hard Landings by Thomas Petzinger for a more capitalist point of view on why airlines serve some communities and not others.