{"id":243378,"date":"2025-06-29T04:00:17","date_gmt":"2025-06-28T18:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/southwest-airlines-moving-away-point-to-point\/"},"modified":"2025-06-29T04:00:17","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T18:00:17","slug":"why-southwest-airlines-is-moving-away-from-point-to-point-flying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=243378","title":{"rendered":"Why Southwest Airlines Is Moving Away From Point-To-Point Flying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Southwest Airlines, the <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/southwest-airlines-worlds-largest-lcc\/\" >world&#8217;s largest low-cost carrier<\/a> and one of the largest airlines in the United States, has made headlines in recent months with several amendments to its current offerings. The Dallas-based carrier recently announced that it would be removing its free checked baggage service, and is now looking to move away from its current <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2044162\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/southwest-airlines-away-from-point-to-point\/\" >point-to-point<\/a><\/span> network, and focus on convenient connections through its many US hub cities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With this change to &#8216;high-density stations,&#8217; Dallas-based Southwest will aim to offer more flights to more destinations.<\/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":[396,476,6331,645,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-point-to-point","category-southwest-airlines","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243378","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=243378"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":243379,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243378\/revisions\/243379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=243378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=243378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=243378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}