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On May 23, Southwest launched service to Northwest Florida Beaches International Airport.

Today, we celebrated our new service at Northwest Florida Beaches International Airport (ECP) with a beach theme that included plenty of beach balls and local music.  Hundreds of Customers and Employees were onhand as Gary Kelly joined ECP Airport Authority Vice Chairman Bill Cramer and St. Joe CEO Britt Greene in a morning news conference. 

While Southwest is very excited about our newest city, Panama City Beach, there was also some recent celebrating on the other side of the country.

A makeshift dance floor at Gate 405 complete with a DJ, mothers dancing with their babies, and smiles everywhere you looked.   This was the scene you would have walked into if you were flying Southwest Airl

Southwest Airlines held a Tweetup on May 22 to celebrate our new service to Panama City Beach.

The Panama City Beach opening weekend is just about enough to make me want to set up residence here! I have been in heaven with my flip flops in hand and toes in the sand. Saturday night, we upped the ante when we threw a laid back, beach bar-honky-tonk into the mix.

The big day is almost here!  We open our newest city, Panama City Beach, this Sunday, May 23!  We have all sorts of fun activities lined up to celebrate this weekend!  We will officially kick off the weekend on Saturday afternoon when we land the first commercial aircraft at the first U.S.