{"id":205578,"date":"2025-04-25T15:00:15","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T05:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/southwest-airlines-pull-out-houston-largest-airport\/"},"modified":"2025-04-25T15:00:15","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T05:00:15","slug":"why-did-southwest-airlines-pull-out-of-houstons-largest-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=205578","title":{"rendered":"Why Did Southwest Airlines Pull Out Of Houston&#8217;s Largest Airport?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last year,         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"44355\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/southwest-airlines\/\"  >Southwest Airlines<\/a><\/span> announced that it was pulling out of several existing cities on its route, primarily due to financial issues. As the airline got hit with financial lows, some low-performing airports in the network, including         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"262166\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/houston-george-bush-intercontinental-airport\/\"  >Houston George Bush Intercontinental Airport<\/a><\/span> (IAH) said goodbye to Southwest. The airline officially stopped flying to IAH on August 4, 2024, leaving         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"258285\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/houston-hobby\/\"  >William P. Hobby Airport<\/a><\/span> (HOU) as the only option for the airline\u2019s Houston travelers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Southwest Airlines has a massive presence at Houston Hobby Airport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,13240,1046,1047,645,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-commercial-aviation","category-houston-george-bush-intercontinental-airport","category-houston-hobby-airport","category-southwest-airlines","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=205578"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":205580,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205578\/revisions\/205580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=205578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=205578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=205578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}