Southwest Airlines goes to South Carolina, lowers airfares

When Southwest Airlines comes to town, competing airlines take serious notice. According to USA Today, it is called the “Southwest Effect,” and it is an effective industry force. The force is so effective that within an hour of announcing brand new avenues into SC, the competitors scrambled to lower rates by thirty percent or more.

Customers constantly happy to determine Southwest Airlines around

In Charleston and Greenville-Spartanburg, South Carolina, Southwest announced flights would be going there. Southwest Airlines shook up the industry and made rivals change rates to be more competitive and cheaper. Now the Southwest Effect has blown in which means that those within the Palmetto State can travel through air for cheaper rates. According to Charleston’s The Post and Courier, “within an hour of Southwest Airlines’ revealing details of its service launching from Charleston International Airport next year, local airfares plunged to $59 each way to Southwest-bound destinations — however only after March 13.”

Travel agents anticipate additional industry

John Powers of Travel Management Group in Charleston told local media the move by Southwest Airlines has brought on a veritable tsunami of savings. “All major carriers cut their rates by at least 30 percent,” he said For instance, one-way flights for which rivals used to charge $228 have lowered all the way down to $59 to match Southwest Airlines.

ABC affiliate News 4 of Charleston shared similar accounts of lower airfare for flights originating after March 13. From Charleston to Chicago on a one way flight used to cost $219 however went down to $99. Even flights with stop-over’s, like one to New York City, went from $400 to $129 one-way. Travel industry experts expect that flights from Greenville-Spartanburg will start going down drastically too.

Information from

USA Today

travel.usatoday.com/flights/post/2010/10/southwest-effect-in-south-carolina/128388/1

ymptoms of the Southwest Effect consist of lower fares

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