{"id":441410,"date":"2026-05-30T04:01:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T18:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/southwest-airlines-plans-massive-expansion-12-long-haul-routes-are-coming\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T04:01:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T18:01:18","slug":"southwest-airlines-plans-massive-expansion-12-long-haul-routes-are-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=441410","title":{"rendered":"Southwest Airlines Plans Massive Expansion: 12 Long-Haul Routes Are Coming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Few very large carriers are evolving 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 Airlines,<\/a><\/span> which now has nearly 800 Boeing 737s and 4,100 daily movements. While Southwest&#8217;s <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"255303\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/long-haul\/\"  >long-haul<\/a><\/span> ambition was already known, more information has come to light following CEO Robert (Bob) Jordan&#8217;s speech at the Bernstein Strategic Decisions Conference on May 28.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The carrier&#8217;s CEO has said that eight to 12 long-haul routes are likely to be served. Where could it fly?<\/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":[396,406,15477,645],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-441410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-routes","category-sf-routes-analysis","category-southwest-airlines"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441410","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=441410"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":441474,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441410\/revisions\/441474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=441410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=441410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=441410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}