Long Beach has restrictions in terms of number of take offs and landings. Southwest has a good operations in the area airports and I think they are considering that opening a station with limited growth potential is not feasible. At least that's my speculation... BAHA Fan of WN and FL for not laying off people -----Original Message----- From: The Airline List [mailto:AIRLINE@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU]On Behalf Of Mark Panitz Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 9:12 PM To: AIRLINE@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU Subject: question why doesn't Southwest airline use Long beach? Question, I was wondering why Southwest doesn't use Long beach airport.. it seems that it would be sense for them to use Long beach..