{"id":429856,"date":"2026-05-17T05:01:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T19:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/southwest-1st-flights-to-alaska-where-theyre-flying\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T05:01:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T19:01:19","slug":"southwest-launches-1st-ever-flights-to-alaska-heres-where-theyre-flying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=429856","title":{"rendered":"Southwest Launches 1st-Ever Flights To Alaska: Here&#8217;s Where They\u2019re Flying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The world&#8217;s largest low-cost carrier, <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 Airlines<\/a><\/span>, has finally arrived in the final frontier. The Dallas-based airline, which operates the largest fleet of Boeing 737s, touched down in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DYWGO5RmCFH\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" >Alaska this Friday, May 15<\/a>, as the airline launched two new routes. Its first routes to the <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"260944\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/anchorage-international-airport\/\"  >Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport<\/a><\/span> (ANC), WN will operate seasonally across the Northern Hemisphere summer season from <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"144284\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/denver-international-airport\/\"  >Denver International Airport<\/a><\/span> (DEN) and <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"278796\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/las-vegas\/\"  >Las Vegas Harry Reid International Airport<\/a><\/span> (LAS).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world&#8217;s largest low-cost carrier, has finally touched down in Alaska, marking its first-ever flights to the state with two new seasonal routes.<\/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":[396,476,1486,1682,1059,15477,645],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-429856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-alaska","category-anchorage-international-airport","category-new-route","category-sf-routes-analysis","category-southwest-airlines"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429856","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=429856"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":429857,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429856\/revisions\/429857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=429856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=429856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=429856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}