Airline and Airport Choice by Passengers in Multi-Airport Regions: The Effect of Southwest AirlinesFootnote∗

∗We want to thank Breandán Ó hUallacháin of Arizona State University and Dimitris Potoglou of McMaster University for assistance with our logit analysis; Barbara Trapido-Lurie for cartographic help; Jong-Geun Kim for GIS assistance; and Patricia Gober, Lawrence Gesell, and Andrew Goetz for their insightful suggestions. Finally, we would like to thank Albert Stevens and Roberta Morris from Southwest Airlines and Chris Villa from America West Airlines for granting us airport access that helped facilitate our surveys.

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