Southwest Airlines has announced HERE that beginning in the 1st Quarter of 2011, they will begin flying all of US Airways domestic routes.  US Airways, unable to get its pilots to agree among themselves much less on a contract with the airline, has decided it would be more profitable to turn over their domestic network to Southwest Airlines and form a joint partnership that has Southwest feeding traffic into US Airways robust international system of flights. 

The aircraft Southwest will use for these new routes will feature Southwest colors with the US Airways logo on the tail.  In return, US Airways will keep its own colors on its international aircraft but add the name “Southwest” along the upper portion of the aircraft fuselages. 

No US Airways flight crew will be moved over to the Southwest system nor will existing aircraft fleets be exchanged.  In a related announcement, Southwest has accelerated its existing orders with Boeing and announced a new 225 aircraft order for 737-800 and 737-900ER aircraft to be used to serve the former US Airways system.

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