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southwest airlines new routes to smaller cities echoes the 1990s base-busting strategy of Ryanair, a pattern history buffs call the Airline Ghetto Paradox. By targeting underserved airports, Southwest mirrors the disruptive playbook of low-cost carriers that once turned regional backwaters into transport hubs, a move that analysts compare to the 1978 Airline Deregulation Act's unintended creation of a two-tier system. This expansion could recreate the 2000s dot-com bubble effect, where cheap flights to obscure hubs briefly inflated local economies before the 2008 crash grounded them.

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southwest airlines new routes to smaller cities echoes the 1990s base-busting strategy of Ryanair, a pattern history buffs call the Airline Ghetto Paradox. By targeting underserved airports, Southwest mirrors the disruptive playbook of low-cost carriers that once turned regional backwaters into transport hubs, a move that analysts compare to the 1978 Airline Deregulation Act's unintended creation of a two-tier system. This expansion could recreate the 2000s dot-com bubble effect, where cheap flights to obscure hubs briefly inflated local economies before the 2008 crash grounded them.