At least one important official airport sees a dip in the
Southwest plan to buy low-cost rival
Air Tran.
Thomas Kinton Jr., director of the
Massachusetts Port Authority,
Boston Logan Airport from overseas, told me this morning in
Pittsburgh think that
Boston would benefit from the merger if it goes through. He said that the airport ‘could see opportunities for growth’ of the agreement, noting that
Southwest and
Air Tran overlap on a single channel (
Baltimore /
Washington)
Boston -. In fact,
Southwest-
Air Tran tie-up, if approved - would likely give the merged airline a big enough presence in
Boston at
low cost pressure JetBlue, which recently became the No. 1
carrier airport in terms of departures.
