{"id":267457,"date":"2025-08-16T01:05:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T15:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/just-70-nautical-miles-introducing-southwest-airlines-new-2nd-short-route\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T01:05:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T15:05:12","slug":"just-70-nautical-miles-introducing-southwest-airlines-new-2nd-short-route","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=267457","title":{"rendered":"Just 70 Nautical Miles: Introducing Southwest Airlines&#8217; New 2nd Short Route"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On August 14, <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<\/a><\/span> announced at least 20 routes and a new city: <strong>Knoxville<\/strong>. They are outlined later in the article. Three of them stand out for being particularly short: <strong>Milwaukee-Chicago Midway<\/strong>, <strong>Knoxville-Nashville<\/strong>, and <strong>Tucson-Phoenix<\/strong>. They exist more or less entirely for transit traffic over what are among the evolving carrier&#8217;s busiest hubs-not-hubs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many routes have been announced by the airline, although half have been served before.<\/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":[396,476,406,15477,645,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-267457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-routes","category-sf-routes-analysis","category-southwest-airlines","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267457","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=267457"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":267458,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267457\/revisions\/267458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=267457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=267457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=267457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}