AirTran schedule extension confusion

[nkereina]

I know that SWA acquired AT, but I haven’t been keeping up on the transition process. Per the AirTran web site, their schedule was recently extended through Jan 2014 and the next schedule extension will be in June. I tried looking up BUF to MCO for 11/14 on the AirTran web site, and no AirTran flights come up. All of the ones that come up are on SWA, and none can be booked through the AT web site. When I look at the SWA web site, it shows all the same SWA flights and a few AT flights on that date, but it shows all of the AT flights as sold out.

Is it safe to assume this AT route is being phased out? AT flights for the same route were still available through 11/1, prior to the schedule extension. Is it possible that it’s still too early for the AT November flights to be out? I’d hate to book a flight on another airline that I’m not thrilled about, and then have AT release their schedule at a later date.

Thanks for any info!

 

[CarrieR]

There are four of us coordinating trips over Christmas and I looked at a LOT of routes this morning. It appears that there was some sort of integration issue with the extension and you can't book AirTran via Southwest or vice versa. I don't think it's an indicator of anything else, as it appeared across multiple routines.

 

[nkereina]

There are four of us coordinating trips over Christmas and I looked at a LOT of routes this morning. It appears that there was some sort of integration issue with the extension and you can't book AirTran via Southwest or vice versa. I don't think it's an indicator of anything else, as it appeared across multiple routines.

Thanks for the info!