Southwest will add three daily year-round routes from its Dallas Love Field base beginning in January. The carrier will also increase its Dallas-Jacksonville and Dallas Minneapolis/St. Paul services from weekly to daily.
Those moves are part of a broader expansion of the carrier’s Love Field operations, which will also include additional frequencies on eight existing routes and the resumption of seasonal winter routes.
Southwest announced the Love Field intensification as it extended its published flight schedule from Jan. 6 of next year through March 6.
Beginning Jan. 7, Southwest will fly daily from Dallas to Louisville, Fort Myers and Milwaukee, competing on all of those routes with American’s service out of Dallas/Forth Worth, according to the website Flight Connections. Southwest has previously flown from Love Field to Fort Myers and Milwaukee, but not to Louisville.
Southwest also competes with American on Dallas-Jacksonville, which it will begin flying daily on Jan. 19.
Southwest will be the fourth airline to fly daily between the Dallas and Minneapolis areas, joining American, Delta and Spirit when it makes that service daily on Jan. 7. However, Southwest will remain alone on flying from the centrally located Love Field to Minneapolis.
Also Thursday, Southwest announced that it would begin twice-daily Newark-Nashville service on Jan. 7, competing with United. That route will replace Southwest’s existing twice-daily Newark-Indianapolis flights.