{"id":342,"date":"2010-10-28T14:45:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-28T14:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/southwest-airlines-predicts-atlanta-will-become-carrier-s-top-city\/"},"modified":"2010-10-28T14:45:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-28T14:45:00","slug":"southwest-airlines-predicts-atlanta-will-become-carrier-s-top-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/southwest-airlines-predicts-atlanta-will-become-carrier-s-top-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Southwest Airlines Predicts Atlanta Will Become Carrier&#8217;s Top City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">\n\n<\/div>\n<p align=\"center\">\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<strong>Southwest Airlines has big plans for Atlanta<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAn executive at Southwest Airlines stated Thursday that Atlanta might become the carrier&#39;s top destination within a few years due to the merger with AirTran Airways.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWhile Southwest does not currently offer flights to Atlanta, AirTran offers about 200 per day.&nbsp; Southwest plans to take advantage of this by launching flights to about 20 cities where AirTran doesn&#39;t operate.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nLas Vegas is Southwest&#39;s top city, with the low-cost carrier operating 224 daily flights each day. Southwest announced in September that it would be acquiring AirTran Holdings Inc. for a reported $1.4 billion.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Business\/wireStory?id=11994577\" target=\"_blank\"> ABC News\/AP&nbsp;<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Southwest Airlines has big plans for Atlanta &nbsp; An executive at Southwest Airlines stated Thursday that Atlanta might become the carrier&#39;s top destination within a few years due to the merger with AirTran Airways.&nbsp; &nbsp; While Southwest does not currently offer flights to Atlanta, AirTran offers about 200 per day.&nbsp; Southwest plans to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}