<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>If ATA succeeds then we get a good partner for the future. Upon imergence from Chapter 11 SWA will take about a 30% stake in ATA. HDQs says it will liquidate the holding over time but that remains to be seen.

In the coming years I think we'll see SWA flying to the islands itself. This may just be the first of a series of tests. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

This is a complete right indicator, U-turn, and heading the other way on the I-10 from the topic at hand, but it's an interesting move by WN. I know in the past they took Morris etc, but this is something much different.
I'd like to think that over the next 12-18 months, the ATA flying scheduled will slowly dwindle and they'll become the lesiure carrier for WN on the Carribbean, Mexican type routes leaving WN to do what it does best. Connect the dots between the unjammed places.