Southwest trying to start Midway-LaGuardia route?

Add comment November 19th, 2008

So Southwest is bidding to buy the operating certificate of defunct partner ATA Airlines, mainly so it can get its old slots at New York’s LaGuardia International Airport and  make its first foray into an actual NYC airport (it now flies to Islip on Long Island).

And that of course leads to rampant speculation that Southwest wants to link Midway to LaGuardia. I’d be very happy with that development. As a NYC native, I would love the option of taking a Van Galder bus to MDW and not have a long train ride on the other end. As it stands now, I look to use AirTran up in Milwaukee, but admittedly I’ll look at United or American at O’Hare if the price is right.

The other benefit is it could lead to a bit of a price war on the Chicago-NYC routes. That’s always nice.