Southwest Ends Publication of Printed Timetables

According to their blog, Southwest is doing away with printed timetables. I didn't realize airlines were still publishing these! Apparently Lufthansa still does, but very few others do. You have to go online or call the airline to get a schedule of flights these days.

Long ago in the pre-Web era, I used to grab the Southwest timetable whenever we would pick my grandmother up at Hobby Airport in Houston. It was interesting to read and/or dream about flying to all the different places that Southwest would go. Needless to say, that list is a lot longer now than it was about 30 years ago...

The blog post has some cool pictures of old timetables from several other airlines besides Southwest. Fun for aviation history buffs out there.