{"id":376921,"date":"2026-02-27T06:00:23","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T20:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/southwests-massive-expansion-31-new-routes-launch-next-week-map\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T06:00:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T20:00:23","slug":"southwests-massive-expansion-31-new-routes-launch-next-week-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=376921","title":{"rendered":"Southwest&#8217;s Massive Expansion: 31 New Routes Launch Next Week [Map]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><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> is nearly 55 years old. It has grown to become the <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"128663\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/united-states\/\"  >US&#8217;s<\/a><\/span> third-largest airline by seats for sale, behind American and Delta. Its sheer scale means it does not grow quickly at the best of times. Indeed, in March 2026, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cirium.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" >Cirium<\/a> Diio data shows that its capacity has fallen marginally compared to the same month last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Southwest&#8217;s second-shortest route takes off next week, one of several very short flights&#8230;<\/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":[396,475,406,15477,645,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-376921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airports","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\/376921","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=376921"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":376922,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376921\/revisions\/376922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=376921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=376921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=376921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}