{"id":409217,"date":"2026-04-20T09:00:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T23:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/southwest-airlines-new-busiest-airport\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T09:00:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T23:00:18","slug":"this-is-southwests-new-busiest-airport-is-it-where-you-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=409217","title":{"rendered":"This Is Southwest&#8217;s New Busiest Airport: Is It Where You Think?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Southwest Airlines is a carrier of huge scale, and it is known for its enormous and uniform fleet that consists of hundreds of aircraft from the popular Boeing 737 family. This scale is also reflected in terms of its airport operations, with current scheduling data made available by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cirium.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" >Cirium<\/a>, an aviation analytics company, showing that the blue-liveried<span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"257812\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><span>budget airline<\/span><\/span> currently operates around 7,500 one-way departures a month from its top bases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interestingly enough, the carrier&#8217;s two busiest airports see plenty of flights between one another.<\/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":[396,476,762,1190,15477,645,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-409217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-denver-international-airport","category-harry-reid-international-airport","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\/409217","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=409217"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":409218,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409217\/revisions\/409218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=409217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=409217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=409217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}