Southwest adds ten nonstop destinations from Love Field

DALLAS – Southwest Airlines has announced ten new nonstop destinations for Dallas Love Field that will launch in April.

Dallas-based Southwest also announced plans to add more flights to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Oakland, California, and Santa Ana/Orange County.

The announcement brings the total number of Southwest flights at Love Field to 166 per day.

The new destinations are

•  Columbus, Ohio
•  Indianapolis, Indiana
•  Memphis, Tennessee
•  Milwaukee, Wisconsin
•  Panama City Beach, Florida
•  Portland, Oregon
•  Sacramento, California
•  San Jose, California
•  Seattle/Tacoma, Washington
•  Charleston, South Carolina

The Charleston route will fly nonstop starting on April 11 and will operate only on Saturdays. Daily flights to Panama City Beach will be seasonal. All other flights are daily and launch on April 8.

Southwest acquired two more gates at Love Field so it could add the destinations. The gates will be subleased to Southwest by United Airlines.

This marks a total of 27 new destinations Southwest has added since the Wright Amendment flight restrictions were lifted.

In a separate expansion, Southwest will begin nonstop flights from Santa Ana/Orange County, Seattle/Tacoma and to Chicago Midway airports on June 28.