[The South Texan]

Hobby Airport is Houston's Southwest hub and they had a very limted number of flights out of Bush, so what's the big deal here?

Nothing bad is happening to SWA as they are kicking everybody elses tail in the US airline industry and they fly American made planes unlike Jet Blue.

[Verginius Rufus]

As long as Southwest doesn't cut back on their food service.

[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...