May 14, 2007
We Will Soon 'Be Free To Move About The Country': Southwest Airlines Coming Back
Continuing a string of semi-interesting news regarding lower-cost airlines, Southwest has announced that it's starting service directly to and from SFO on August 26.
During a media conference at SFO last week, Gavin Newsom was quoted as saying:
"It's a wonderful day when we can welcome back an old friend -- in this case, Southwest Airlines -- to San Francisco."
Wait -- he's Southwest's "friend?" Uh oh. How long until Mayor Gav.'s heartfelt announcment that he's been flying business class on Virgin or JetBlue, but paying out some contractual obligation to Southwest all the same?
In any case, SFO will have eight daily flights to San Diego, seven to Vegas, and three to Chicago Midway. As a related promotion, one-way fares start at $39 for all three northern Californian airports (SFO, Oakland, San Jose).
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Here's a question: when will the Bay Area have a single airport authority? If you fly into many other large U.S. cities with multiple airports you don't have to try to find flights for each and every airport to see who has the best price at say Expedia. You can just search on one and you'll find prices and times for all the other airports too. I know that the Bay Area all hates each other, but having three airports that are all separate is not cost effective and its certainly not good for the consumer. I assume this is an airport authority issue.
good idea, but let's keep san jose out of the picture...
Having a single airport authority may have other benefits, but the ability to search for flights has nothing to do with it. All the travel sites (Orbitz, Travelocity, Expedia, etc.) have a "search surrounding airports" option which, for certain types of searches, let you include all Bay Area airports in one search. This is true for other multi-city airports whether or not there's a single airport authority.
On Expedia, put in QSF as the airport code and it'll search all three.