Today we started accepting bookings from March 14 through May 7, 2010. Party on, Spring Break! Hippity-hop, Easter! Hello, Passover! Time to plan a trip and book something. LET'S GO SOMEWHERE!
We're adding over a hundred weekday flights to our network. Some airports will see noticeable increases--Chicago gets 21 more daily flights, Baltimore gets 18, Orlando and Tampa each get 9 more flights. To be clear--we are NOT back into growth mode. We're able to add all these flights not by adding to our fleet, but by taking advantage of the seasonal decrease in flying time going from Winter into Spring. You'd be surprised how much extra time an average decrease of five minutes per flight, spread across 3,200 flights a day, can create!
Another interesting fact about our new March-May Schedule is how much more flying we're packing into the Saturday schedule. Saturday is the air travel equivalent of "Leisure Day," and we're really loading extra leisure-oriented flights into the Saturday schedule. For example--we're upping Orlando's daily departures from 104 to 129 on Saturdays. We're going to keep that Disney Express hopping on "Leisure Saturdays!" In fact, we're adding quite a number of Saturday flights to and from our Florida cities, as well as to/from Las Vegas.
As a nod to all of the "schedule geeks" out there--and I say that lovingly, because I am one!--we are publishing not one, but two of the market-based schedule frequency .PDF files on this. One is for weekday service, the other for Saturday service. Lots of changes--so enjoy!!!
Happy booking, everyone!
Bill
| Attachment | Size |
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| March 2010 Flight Weekday Changes.pdf | 43.27 KB |
| March 2010 Saturday Only Flight Changes.pdf | 22.01 KB |
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AA is dropping RDU to BDL, CMH, and STL. Over the past 2 years, AA and other airlines have dropped RDU to other destinations such as AUS, MCI, MKE, and MSY. I wish WN would pick up some of the slack! I remember WN once had nonstops from RDU to AUS and MCI.
I love Southwest, I live in Atlanta and have to drive to Birmingham regularly. Being an Ontario, Ca Native, there are no flights to Chicago, New York, Florida or DC from the most convenient and less congested LA Airport. If you want a non-stop flight to these major cities you have the hassle of the drive and heavy traffic to LAX, and that's only the half of it.
please, please ,pleae fly to fresno, its a big city but overlooked because it sits between lax and sfo, its a nightmare and expensive to fly in and out of there. a fresno chicago, fresno san diego ,and fresno baltimore would do well plus vegas and lax and oakland and houston all would be good.
Woo Hoo, just what we need here at Southwest Airlines Vacations, more flights into Orlando and Las Vegas! Got to keep those SWA planes full along with those hotel rooms! Call us, we're ready to book that dream vacation package for you and your family! Don't forget to add your park passes and sight seeing tours too! Happy Travels America!
Luv,
Team SWA Vacations
-- Today we started accepting bookings from March 14 through May 7, 2010.--
I'm trying to book at flight from Detroit to Seattle, March 24-March 29, 2010, but when I go to make the reservation it tells me only taking them until March 12. When can I book for later in March 2010?
What happened to the non-stop service between SLC and STL?
Today we started accepting bookings from March 14 through May 7, 2010.
I'm trying to book a flight from Detroit to Seattle March 24- March 29, 2010 but keeping being alerted that reservations are being taken only to March 12. When can I book late-March flights?
Thanks
You guys are no better than American Airlines in Nashville. You've been cutting back since 2001 at rate that you haven't at all made up for BS'ing us all along way about how you're not really doing anything negative in Nashville. And now here you go making more frequency cuts, not bringing back the west coast service you've already axed, killing another city, not picking up the St. Louis slack which Nashville has supported consistently since before you even existed, and turning a blind eye to any and all other viable expansion at BNA or within the southeast. We've grown tremendously since you've first started serving us, have new headquarters, an O&D count that is now as high as what American had generated with connecting passengers, and all you've done for the last 9 years is cut and let your ticket agents talk about how we are only a real airport when we have sporting events or fan fair. What a load of crap. You don't even update all your gates with the new seating and the last time I flew the cheap basic seating rocked back and forth because you didn't bolt it down to floor. If you just want to wear the glory badge in the big cities and be their airline then please just go ahead and get out of here already so we can bring back in people like AirTran and Jetblue who have better planes and more perks anyway and maybe regain mainline with CO and UA. You guys don't know Nashville any better than the new DL management knows CVG. I'll do everything from here on out to avoid you and gain status with someone else which thankfully shouldn't be that hard. I don't like companies who are insincere or status quo in their commitments to my community.
RDU routes have not been terribly profitable for the airlines as of late with the declines in business travel. I'm sure that WN is looking carefully at these routes, but remember that they couldn't make them work in a solid economy.
I wish Southwest would fly into Charlotte, North Carolina. Most of us in the banking industry are so tired of taking US Airways. Please come to Charlotte!
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