{"id":1660,"date":"2005-08-11T12:04:28","date_gmt":"2005-08-11T12:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=1660"},"modified":"2005-08-11T12:04:28","modified_gmt":"2005-08-11T12:04:28","slug":"northwest_goes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=1660","title":{"rendered":"Northwest Goes after the Small Airlines with Non-Stops to Las Vegas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Northwest Airlines, Madison&#8217;s largest air carrier, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nwa.com\/corpinfo\/newsc\/2005\/pr081020051618.html\">announced new non-stop service<\/a> to Las Vegas yesterday.   This service competes with an existing non-stop route flown by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madison.com\/tct\/business\/\/index.php?ntid=50191&amp;ntpid=6\">Allegiant Airlines<\/a>.  The major airlines have often used this tactic to drive low fare competitors from the market.  Northwest flies several non-stop routes from Milwaukee that compete with local favorite <a href=\"http:\/\/www.midwestairlines.com\">Midwest Airlines<\/a>.  These flights are unusual in that they do not require connections on NW&#8217;s Minneapolis, Detroit or Memphis fortress hubs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Northwest Airlines, Madison&#8217;s largest air carrier, announced new non-stop service to Las Vegas yesterday. This service competes with an existing non-stop route flown by Allegiant Airlines. The major airlines have often used this tactic to drive low fare competitors from the market. Northwest flies several non-stop routes from Milwaukee that compete with local favorite Midwest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1660"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}