Southwest to Add Cincinnati and Grand Cayman to Its Network
AirlinesAirportsDestinations January 5, 2017
Southwest Airlines is planning to launch service on June 4 to Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport and to Grand Cayman’s Owen Roberts International Airport (subject to Southwest receiving requisite governmental approvals).
Read moreIn extending its bookable flight schedule through November 4, Southwest Airlines has announced it is launching six new U.S. domestic routes and one new international route on August 7.
Read moreIn extending its bookable flight schedule from January 6 until March 8, 2016, Southwest Airlines is launching four new year-round routes on January 6.
Read moreOrlando will be Southwest Airlines’ third Florida destination from Washington Reagan National Airport, where Southwest says it is now the second-largest carrier in terms of passengers carried.
Read moreSouthwest Airlines is planning to launch international service from Houston Hobby Airport to eight cities in Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean this fall.
Read moreThe aircraft, emblazoned with an artist’s rendition of the Missouri state flag, was unveiled at a ceremony on April 15 at the Kansas City International Airport location of aircraft-maintenance company Aviation Technical Services, with which Southwest has partnered for more than 35 years.
Read moreSouthwest Unveils New Seat Design for Future 737-800s and 737 MAXs
AircraftAirlinesTravel Technology April 14, 2015
The carrier will first roll out the new three-seat rows beginning in mid-2016, on new Boeing 737-800 deliveries. B/E Aerospace, which designed and engineered the seat row, unveiled the new Southwest Airlines seat-row on April 14 at the Aircraft Interiors Expo in Hamburg, Germany.
Read moreSouthwest Airlines has announced new routes to eight additional cities from Dallas Love Field as part of a service expansion that will see it add 16 more flights a day from the airport on August 9.
Read moreThe carrier will operate once-daily round-trip service on eight of the new routes and Saturday-only service on the ninth. Southwest Airlines will also increase the frequency of its flights on four existing routes from Dallas Love Field in April.
Read moreIn a new extension of its flight schedule to August 7, Southwest Airlines has added seven new year-round U.S. domestic routes, along with 18 additional domestic seasonal and two international services for summer 2015.
Read moreSouthwest Airlines is planning to launch daily non-stop service between Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport and Costa Rica’s capital San Jose on March 7.
Read moreSouthwest Airlines has unveiled a new fleet-wide livery, corporate logo and airport experience, at a Dallas Love Field event dedicated to its 46,000 employees.
Read moreSouthwest Airlines is launching non-stop service from Dallas Love Field to San Francisco International Airport and Oakland International Airport on January 6, 2015.
Read moreSouthwest Operates Its First Service with New 737-800 Winglets
AircraftAirlinesTravel Technology April 9, 2014
Southwest Airlines has operated its first revenue flight with a Boeing 737 equipped with Aviation Partners’ Boeing Split Scimitar Winglets. The first Southwest aircraft sporting the Split Scimitar Winglets is a Boeing 737-800 which previously had Blended Winglets fitted.
Read moreSouthwest Airlines is more than doubling the number of flights it operates from Washington Reagan National Airport this summer, launching seven new routes and additional connecting itineraries.
Read moreSouthwest has announced it would add 20 flights to 12 new non-stop destinations if the airline is able to acquire two additional gates at Dallas Love Field. American must relinquish the gates under the terms of a settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice, but other airlines are also bidding for them.
Read moreSouthwest Airlines will expand its fledgling international-service network by offering new flights to both the Pacific and Caribbean coasts of Mexico from August 10 and early October, as well as launching other new international services.
Read moreSouthwest Airlines will launch new non-stop service to 15 new domestic destinations from Dallas Love Field following the repeal of flight restrictions imposed in 1979 which limit the states that can be served from the near-downtown airport.
Read moreSouthwest Airlines and JetBlue Airways are both big winners in the auctioning of American Airlines and US Airways slots at Washington Reagan National Airport that the U.S. government required in order for American and US Airways to complete their merger in December.
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