This means Sacramento is not on the chopping block at all ! The number of times I have flown on SW, the plane has been PACKED ! But I now hate peanuts ! :-) BOB FLETCHER US ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS MILITARY DESIGN SECTION 10th FLOOR S.W. SACRAMENTO DISTRICT 1325 J STREET, SACRAMENTO CALIFORNIA, 95814-2922 Phone (916) 557-7235 -----Original Message----- From: Bill Hough [mailto:psa188@xxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2004 7:39 AM To: AIRLINE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: NYTimes.com Article: Southwest Shifts Schedules The article below from NYTimes.com has been sent to you by psa188@xxxxxxxxx Southwest Shifts Schedules August 24, 2004 JOE SHARKEY SOUTHWEST SHIFTS ITS SCHEDULES Southwest Airlines said it would cut 88 daily flights from its fall schedule to concentrate more of its planes on highly competitive markets like Philadelphia, the US Airways bastion where Southwest began service May 9. The schedule changes will trim flight frequencies in small and medium-size cities like Albuquerque; Kansas City, Mo.; New Orleans; Little Rock, Ark.; and Austin, El Paso and Lubbock, Tex. But big hub airports like Los Angeles International, Houston Intercontinental and Dallas-Fort Worth International will also lose a small number of daily flights, said Ed Stewart, a Southwest spokesman. "Philadelphia is certainly one of the places where we are growing faster than any of our other city openings in recent history," he said. Other city-pair routes on which Southwest will add flights include: Hobby Airport at Houston and Orlando, Fla.; Houston Hobby and Los Angeles; Baltimore and Nashville; Chicago Midway and Tampa, Fla.; Las Vegas and Tucson, Ariz.; and St. Louis and Oklahoma City. Joe Brancatelli, the publisher of the business-travel Web site JoeSentMe.com, said Southwest's move made sense. "It's what smart airlines do," he said. "Only in the airline industry is inventory management considered a radical proposition." UNITED AWARD MILES It just became easier to get a free mileage award on short hops on United Airlines. With business sagging on short-haul routes dominated by low-cost airlines, United said yesterday that it had reduced to 15,000 from 25,000 the number of Mileage Plus miles needed to claim a free coach seat - but only on nonstop round-trip flights of 750 miles or less each way.