Southwest Airlines® Extends Fall Flight Additions at Baltimore/Washington International Airport
Southwest Airlines Co. (NYSE: LUV) today revised its existing flight schedule to add new flights to existing city pairs out of Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport (BWI) every day beginning Aug. 7th and ending as late as Nov. 4th. All additional flights are on sale immediately at Southwest.com. Customers can expect additional service announcements throughout 2016.
"We continue to enhance service in the region to give our Customers exactly what they want—more flights and lower fares," said Dave Harvey, Managing Director, Business Development. "The first of what we told you we would bring to Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport (BWI) in terms of new flights in 2016 started flying yesterday to Minneapolis-Saint Paul Airport. With the recent increase in our summer schedule, these new fall flight increases, and our international offering, there's one thing people from Baltimore can be certain of—we're committed to this region and this airport."
New nonstop flights between these cities are now available at Southwest.com for travel Aug. 7th through Oct. 30th:
- Monday through Saturday
- Baltimore to Denver from 4 to 5 daily trips
New nonstop flights between these cities are now available at Southwest.com for travel Aug. 7th through Sept. 5th:
- Sunday through Friday
- Baltimore to Seattle from 1 to 2 daily trips
- Baltimore to Portland, Maine from 3 to 4 daily trips
New nonstop flights between these cities are now available at Southwest.com for travel Sept. 6th through Nov. 4th:
- Baltimore to Boston
- from 9 to 10 daily trips on Monday through Friday
- from 7 to 8 daily trips on Saturdays
- from 8 to 9 daily trips on Sundays
- Baltimore to Minneapolis–Saint Paul
- from 2 to 3 daily trips on Sunday through Friday
- from 1 to 2 daily trips on Saturday
- Baltimore to New Orleans
- from 2 to 3 daily trips
- Baltimore to Portland, Maine
- from 3 to 4 daily trips Sunday through Friday
- from 4 to 5 daily trips on Saturday
In March, Southwest announced summer frequency increases for six daily departing BWI flights to six destinations on weekdays including Oakland International Airport, Denver International Airport, Manchester-Boston Regional Airport, Hartford's Bradley International Airport, Tampa International Airport, Orlando International Airport, and five on Saturdays only to Hartford's Bradley International Airport, Seattle–Tacoma International Airport, Orlando International Airport, Nashville International Airport, and Tampa International Airport.
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