{"id":269424,"date":"2025-08-20T02:05:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T16:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/southwest-airlines-to-end-these-29-routes-next-march-in-network-shake-up\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T02:05:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T16:05:13","slug":"southwest-airlines-to-end-these-29-routes-next-march-in-network-shake-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=269424","title":{"rendered":"Southwest Airlines To End These 29 Routes Next March In Network Shake-Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Few airlines are changing as much as <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> To help arrest lackluster financial performance and increase competitiveness, <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/southwest-airlines-big-move-passenger-opinions\/\" >it now charges for bags<\/a>, offers overnight flights, and <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/why-southwest-airlines-abandoning-open-seating\/\" >will begin assigning seats and charging for extra-legroom seats<\/a>. Numerous changes are occurring to its network and schedule. For example, <a href=\"https:\/\/crankyflier.com\/2025\/08\/18\/southwests-big-schedule-restructure-caters-to-connections\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" >as pointed out by Cranky Flier<\/a>, <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"259979\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/chicago-midway\/\"  >Chicago Midway,<\/a><\/span> Denver, Nashville, and St. Louis will have four distinct banks of flights daily in the carrier&#8217;s drive to grow transit traffic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Denver and St. Louis are particularly affected.<\/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":[396,476,762,17818,406,15477,645,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-269424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-denver-international-airport","category-lambert-st-louis-international-airport","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\/269424","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=269424"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":269425,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269424\/revisions\/269425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=269424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=269424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=269424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}