{"id":410297,"date":"2026-04-22T02:00:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T16:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/only-39-full-southwests-10-emptiest-routes-revealed-full-list\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T02:00:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T16:00:18","slug":"only-39-full-southwests-10-emptiest-routes-revealed-full-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=410297","title":{"rendered":"Only 39% Full: Southwest&#8217;s 10 Emptiest Routes Revealed [Full List]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the 12 months to January 2026, <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> carried just shy of 170 million passengers. Some 97% of passengers only flew domestically, which meant that the evolving carrier was the US&#8217;s third-largest domestic operator. About one in five passengers flew it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How many of them can you guess? Find them all out here!<\/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-410297","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\/410297","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=410297"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":410298,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410297\/revisions\/410298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=410297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=410297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=410297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}