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 Southwest Airlines Co. will introduce two daily nonstop flights between Kansas City and Minneapolis-St. Paul beginning next year.
The Dallas-based airline (NYSE: LUV) and subsidiary AirTran Airways announced the new flights Monday. They start Feb. 14.
Southwest and AirTran also announced a slate of new seasonal routes, though none of them originate from Kansas City.
Delta Air Lines Inc. (NYSE: DAL) and American Airlines currently provide the only direct service from Kansas City International Airport…
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 AirTran Airways, which merged with Southwest Airlines Co. in May, clinched the top spot in the latest Airline Quality Rating report.
Southwest (NYSE: LUV), the busiest carrier at Kansas City International Airport (Code: MCI), ranked seventh.
Overall, the industry soared to new heights last year, scoring the highest in the 21 years the report has been compiled. The rating uses U.S. Department of Transportation data to measure airline performance on criteria that include on-time performance, baggage...
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 Passenger traffic surged in February at Kansas City International Airport, increasing 10.8 percent from the same month last year.
The Kansas City Aviation Department reported Friday that KCI (Code: MCI) handled 697,350 arriving and departing passengers last month. Boardings alone rose 12.3 percent from February 2011 to reach 352,007, despite a decline in the number of seats.
Southwest Airlines Co. (NYSE: LUV) remained the busiest carrier at KCI, handling 40.2 percent of boardings during the month....
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 If a Wichita official’s predictions are true, Kansas City International Airport could lose some traffic when Southwest Airlines Co. starts operating flights from Wichita.
Victor White, an official with the Wichita Airport Authority, said the 2013 addition of Southwest service at Wichita Mid-Continent Airport (Code: ICT) could keep hundreds of passengers a day from leaving Wichita to catch flights at other airports — especially if Southwest (NYSE: LUV) adds new destinations there, according to the Wichita Business Journal, an affiliate of the Kansas City Business Journal...
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 Southwest Airlines Co., the largest carrier at Kansas City International Airport, will give its aircraft interiors a cosmetic and environmental makeover.
The cabin updates include recyclable carpet, a brighter color scheme and a more durable, eco-friendly and comfortable seat that weighs less than the current seat. The new interior also boosts the number of seats from 137 to 143 while increasing under-seat room for carry-on luggage.
Click here for a 360-degree tour the new interior. Or click on the photo to the right to begin a slideshow of Southwest's (NYSE: LUV) upgrades...
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 Alaska Airlines Inc., a carrier that will come to Kansas City International Airport in 2012, has earned the top spot on a list ranking airline performance.
Southwest Airlines Co. (NYSE: LUV), KCI’s busiest airline, ranked third on the list.
The ranking was based on operational data from FlightStats.com and the U.S. Department of Transportation. The list appeared in The Wall Street Journal’s “Middle Seat” blog and analyzed data about on-time performance, baggage handling, delays, passenger bumps, canceled flights and customer complaints...
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 Those sometimes mysterious airline fees are out in the open — for the most part.
And a look at those charged by Kansas City International Airport’s most popular airlines — just like SkyMall magazines — offers some interesting reading.
You’ll pay $75 for each pet carrier you carry on Southwest Airlines Co. (NYSE: LUV), which is the biggest carrier at KCI (Code: MCI). And the last U.S. airline standing (er, flying) for not charging for all checked bags also has a special fee if you check 10 or more bags — unless you’re in the military...
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Those sometimes mysterious airline fees are out in the open — for the most part.
And a look at those charged by Kansas City International Airport’s most popular airlines — just like SkyMall magazines — offers some interesting reading.
You’ll pay $75 for each pet carrier you carry on Southwest Airlines Co. (NYSE: LUV), which is the biggest carrier at KCI (Code: MCI). And the last U.S. airline standing (er, flying) for not charging for all checked bags also has a special fee if you check 10 or more bags — unless you’re in the military...
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An evening flight from Dallas to Kansas City ranked as the No. 3 most-delayed flight during the past year, according to The Wall Street Journal.
About 47 percent of flights are late, with an average delay of 73 minutes.
The Southwest Airlines (NYSE: LUV) flight — Flight 50 from Dallas Love Field to Kansas City International Airport — is supposed to leave around 8 p.m. But that plane often goes through fog or congestion earlier in the day, slowing it down. Also, because KCI isn’t a maintenance base for Southwest, planes have to be traded out if one needs overnight work, the newspaper reported...
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 Despite posting a rise in second-quarter profits, Southwest Airlines said it may cut its 2012 capacity because of soaring fuel prices during a down economy.
Southwest is the largest carrier at Kansas City International Airport (Code: MCI), with a 40 percent market share last year.
Dallas-based Southwest (NYSE: LUV) reported a profit of $161 million, or 21 cents a share, during the second quarter. That's up from $112 million, or 15 cents a share, during the same period last year.
Excluding one-time items, the airline earned 15 cents a share — well below analysts' expectations...
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 Southwest Airlines, Kansas City International Airport’s largest carrier, ranked 13th among the big 18 carriers in terms of on-time flights in January, according to new data from the Bureau of Transportation Statistics.
Southwest (NYSE: LUV), which has about 40 percent of market share at KCI (Code: MCI), had 74.4 percent of flights running on time that month. Frontier, which has a hub at KCI and about 10 percent market share, ranked 10th with an on-time percentage of 75.7.
Delta Air Lines Inc. (NYSE: DAL), another large KCI carrier with about 16 percent market share, had...
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Southwest Airlines has closed on its $1.4 billion purchase of AirTran Airways.
Dallas-based Southwest (NYSE: LUV) said Monday that it had bought all outstanding common stock of AirTran Holdings Inc. (NYSE: AAI), which operates AirTran Airways. When adding in AirTran’s net debt, the total transaction value is $3.2 billion.
The deal adds bulk to the market-share leader at Kansas City International Airport (Code: MCI), where Southwest handled more than 40 percent of passenger boardings last year. AirTran’s KCI market share last year was...
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 Dallas-based Southwest Airlines Co. has reached an agreement with its pilots regarding the initial transition and procedural framework for integrating AirTran pilots after the combination of the companies.
The pilots, represented by Southwest Airlines Pilots’ Association, will be integrated into Southwest (NYSE: LUV) after the official legal closing of Southwest’s $3.4 billion acquisition of parent company AirTran Holdings Inc. (NYSE: AAI), expected during the second quarter.
Already, Southwest is the market share leader at Kansas City International Airport (Code: MCI), handling more than 40 percent of boardings last...
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 After initially looking like it was going to stick, last week’s attempted airfare boost has proved to be only partially successful.
During the weekend, the $20 round-trip domestic ticket price increase met resistance from carriers such as Southwest Airlines (NYSE: LUV); JetBlue (Nasdaq: JBLU); AirTran, a unit of AirTran Holdings (NYSE: AAI); and Frontier, owned by Republic Airways Holdings Inc. (Nasdaq: RJET), according to FareCompare.com.
In an e-mail update about the price increase attempt, FareCompare CEO Rick Seaney wrote that the low-cost carriers began matching at the $10 level, half of the original...
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Flights at Kansas City International Airport left as scheduled 85 percent of the time, according to a report out this week. (ALK) (CAL) (LUV)
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