List of Southwest Airlines destinations

As of August 2021, Southwest Airlines has scheduled flights to over 100 destinations^[1] in 42 states, Puerto Rico, Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean, the newest being Eugene, Oregon on August 29, 2021. The airline has 15 focus cities and operates over 4,000 flights each day.^[2]

Destinations[]

Southwest does not use the "hub and spoke" system of other major airlines, preferring instead the "point-to-point" system with focus cities.^[3] It has large operations in certain airports. An average of 80 percent of Southwest passengers are local passengers— only 20 percent of all passengers are connecting passengers. This is higher than most airlines, where many passengers connect in hub cities. However, at Southwest's focus cities, the percentage of connecting passengers can reach 30 percent.^[4] As part of its effort to control costs, Southwest historically used secondary airports in cities where the primary airports have high costs, such as Chicago, Dallas/Fort Worth, Houston and Miami. In recent years however, the airline has been expanding into primary airports as well.^[5]

Unlike most other U.S. airlines, it does not fly outside the continent of North America and it does not fly to Canada due to their payment system not setup for Canadian dollars.^[6]

International service[]

Southwest began planning international service when it acquired AirTran Airways, which already served international destinations. Southwest's first approach to international service came on April 19, 2012 when it signed a contract with the Amadeus IT Group to launch an international reservation system. This agreement gave the airline the capability to begin flying to destinations outside of the United States.^[7]

Southwest debuted the international reservation system on January 27, 2014 when its first international flights went on sale. This was followed by the first international flights which began on July 1, 2014 to Aruba (AUA), Montego Bay, Jamaica (MBJ) and Nassau, Bahamas (NAS).

Southwest built a 5 gate international terminal at William P. Hobby Airport that opened in 2015. Southwest also built a 5 gate international terminal in Fort Lauderdale that opened in 2017.^[8] In 2021, A 5 gate extension of terminal A at Baltimore/Washington International Airport opened. Southwest is the sole occupier of Terminal A and it invested significantly in the creation of the extension.^[9]

Table[]

As of June 2021, Southwest Airlines flies to 118 destinations.

Terminated destinations[]

References[]

External links[]

• Southwest Airlines Route Map