Today, Southwest and Long Beach airport announced a massive expansion for the airport’s largest carrier, announcing the introduction of routes to five new cities, in addition to the previously announced service to Honolulu (PHNL). These routes are Reno (KRNO, shoutout to @N1DG), Chicago Midway (KMDW), St. Louis (KSTL), Dallas Love (KDAL), and Houston Hobby (KHOU).
This all comes after jetBlue’s departure to nearby LAX back in October, freeing up the majority of slots at the airport.
It’s been a wild couple of days for Long Beach, who saw Southwest announce flights to Honolulu, immediately followed by Hawaiian announcing flights to Kahului (PHOG), and now this. It’s also very exciting to see that Long Beach is slowly, but surely recovering from the loss of its main tenant. Southwest will hold 25-34 of LGB’s daily slots, an overwhelming majority.
These routes, in addition to their Honolulu route, will commence on March 11 of next year, just two days after the inaugural Hawaiian flight to Kahului.
Fantastic to see traffic and routes being added to the airport of Long Beach as auch airports often tend to suffer extremely in a bad market situation due to the high amount of competition from bigger airports. Thanks for braking the news!
