YEAH! I've seen the big ol' salmon37 and it's funny looking but very creative if I do say so. I too wish they had more then the 3 flights to ORD but what can they do? They are partners with AA and O'hare is at capacity I think so they have to make due with what is there. Sometimes I think that it would make more sense for them to fly to MDW but they have no partners there so if something goes wrong AS's pax are screwed. I for one do not want to fly SWA *insert throw up emotion*
Have you ever been to MDW? Its a hole compared to ORD.... Its the perfect place for SWA and FL, ghetto airport for ghetto airlines. I for one wouldn't use AS if they were at MDW. I live northwest of ORD, so I would have no reason to drive past it. If I couldn't take AS out of ORD, I would just use UA.
Edited By StephenM, to reduce number of quotes
Some of the area around MDW is not that much of a ghetto, at least the part that is mostly Polish, though the demographics are changing as most of the Poles there are leaving the area and there are not as many new Poles coming in as there was in the 1970s and 1980s (It is slowly becoming more Mexican), but there are some communities very close by that most simply would not feel safe driving through, which we both understand why. as for MDW traffic, over the years, it has turned into the most boring thing I've ever seen, with the exception of the occasional NWA DC-9 and AA MD-80, it appears that MDW's traffic looks like this: SWA-SWA-SWA-SWA-SWA-SWA-AirTran-SWA-SWA-Airtran-SWA. I remember how fun it was years ago, when ATA was still big there, it was interesting seeing a 757 make that last turn before it landed. Sorta funny too seeing my mom freak out thinking it was going to land on Archer Ave.
Funny thing though, before ORD was a large commercial Airport, MDW was the larger airport serviced by all the majors in that region.