AirTran Posts a Profit
Jan 26th, 2005 | By Jared BlankVery quietly, AirTran has built an extremely successful business, right under the nose of Delta. The company announced a small profit yesterday, a near miracle considering the billions lost by network carriers. Their success seems to be based on a mixture of business and leisure destinations, and option of upgrading to an inexpensive business class, while still keeping costs down and keeping expansion at a reasonable level. Their story has not been parsed to the degree Southwest’s has (obviously), but people will start looking to AirTran has a model to copy in the future.