Carrier extends flight schedule through early 2015, plans final integration of AirTran Airways.
DALLAS – Southwest Airlines extended its bookable flight schedules through Jan. 4, 2015, and published dozens of new nonstop markets for Customers flying the carrier from Dallas Love Field and Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. The schedule also includes new Southwest Airlines service to an additional Caribbean destination – Punta Cana, Dominican Republic—as well as to North America’s largest metropolitan area, Mexico City. The new flights are available for purchase now at southwest.com.
“There are some big gifts for everyone in this holiday schedule: our initial nonstop offerings for a liberated Love Field in Dallas, and nearly triple the flights we currently offer at Reagan National Airport,” said Bob Jordan, Southwest Airlines Executive Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer. “We’re also bringing Southwest service to the final two international destinations on the network we created after acquiring AirTran Airways in 2011. That integration will be completed on-plan by the end of this year.”
Southwest Airlines also announces today new nonstop service between Washington Reagan National Airport and both Akron/Canton and Indianapolis beginning Nov. 2, 2014, increasing the carrier’s service at Reagan National from a present day offering of 17 departures to 44 departures a day by year’s end to a total 14 destinations: Atlanta, Akron/Canton, Austin, Chicago Midway, Dallas Love Field, Houston Hobby, Fort Myers, Indianapolis, Kansas City, Milwaukee, Nashville, New Orleans, St. Louis, and Tampa Bay.
Southwest Airlines also adds new nonstop service between Washington Dulles and both Las Vegas and San Diego, and to existing nonstop destinations of Chicago Midway and Denver.
Southwest Airlines continues its historic launch of international service with two additional destinations – Mexico City and Punta Cana, Dominican Republic- added on Nov. 2, 2014, to the carrier’s network map of more than 90 destinations across five countries in North America and the Caribbean.
New, daily international service on Southwest Airlines beginning Nov. 2, 2014, with introductory fares from U.S. gateway cities
AirTran Airways Fully Integrated into Southwest Airlines by End of 2014
AirTran Airways Flight 1 will operate on Sunday, Dec. 28, 2014, as the carrier’s final scheduled departure. The evening flight from Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport to Tampa Bay reprises the first flight the carrier operated on Oct. 26, 1993. Southwest Airlines Co. announced its acquisition of AirTran Airways in September 2010, and closed the transaction on May 2, 2011. The FAA awarded the Company a single operating certificate for the two carriers on March 1, 2012, and the Company plans to close 2014 with wholly owned subsidiary AirTran fully-integrated into Southwest Airlines serving a network of 93 destinations in five countries.
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