Southwest Airlines has no official stance on the American Airlines-US Airways merger, but the low-cost carrier (LCC) wants to have a stronger presence at Washington National Airport (DCA) and is opposed to a merged American-US Airways controlling two-thirds of DCA’s slots.
Irish low-cost carrier (LCC) Ryanair will step up its presence in Poland with the announcement of its first two domestic Polish routes—daily services from Warsaw Modlin to Gdansk and Wroclaw—beginning March 2014.