Fox News
Expand
Browse All Video
Watch Live

You're watching...

Southwest vs. United

Details

  • Description

    Airline's battle over international flights in Texas

  • Duration 1:48
  • Date

Clips

Also in this playlist...

Latest News

Auto-advance: ON

Auto-advance
View All

Transcript

This transcript is automatically generated

And -- held -- brand lives just two miles from hobby airport.

In -- neighborhood and she says has been ignored for years.

I am in favor of south west.

Getting to do international flights I think it would be a great idea for this area.

Southland -- city steady safe flying south of the border.

We'll generate 101000 new jobs and pump billions into the economy.

First the city must approve the plans plans united says are a bad idea.

Their study shows splitting international air service would cost 3700 John -- and nearly 300 million dollars in economic -- United's largest hub is and the big airport where it wants all international traffic to stay.

United has always welcome competition in southwest is trying to make this a united vs southwest story when it's really a Houston vs Dallas and Houston vs Atlanta and Charlotte story if they're going to come and benefit from the international market in the international hub in Houston.

That he put their flights and Intercontinental and they come and provide support for that how.

Did -- airlines studies have left he estonians confused.

And what it all boils down to it David people want to know what's really anywhere what does -- actually gonna turn out to be.

Because if today it's 101000 jobs and it sounds good.

It's that what it's gonna turn -- be.

United says no that southwest is using bad data to come up with unrealistic job numbers in fares.

Those airlines are scheduled to make their pitches to city council on Tuesday.

But I hope that they'll take some time and and really appreciate.

What is so different between these two studies because it's very very different.

Load More