Southwest Airlines will face greater logistical challenges after the grounding of Boeing 737 Max planes than US competitors, said Henry Harteveldt.
, said Henry Harteveldt, the founder of the travel research company Atmosphere Research Group.
American and United use a"hub-and-spoke" model to organize their flight schedules, which means planes are more likely to return to a central hub after a given flight than in Southwest's"point-to-point" model, under which a plane is more likely to fly to multiple cities without returning to its prior location.
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