Southwest Airlines Announces Four New Non-Stop Destinations from St. Louis for the Summer

    July 17, 2020

    By Anastasia Gorelova

    Source St. Louis Post-Dispatch (TNS)

    Southwest Airlines will add four new daily flights to popular vacation destinations between July 26 and August 10.

    New destinations are Grand Rapids, Michigan; Norfolk, Virginia; Providence, Rhode Island; and Charlotte, North Carolina. While the additions are temporary, the company is open to extending them beyond August.

    Due to a sharp decline in travel demand, Southwest offered fewer than 40 daily flights from St. Louis Lambert Airport in early to mid-May, compared with 114 flights on March 12, before the COVID-19 pandemic.

    As of last week, Lambert spokesman Will Becker said, Southwest was back up to 96 daily flights.

    The airport projects that its operations will return to pre-pandemic levels by September. It expects to have nearly 200 daily flights from St. Louis in August, up from a low of 80 in May.

    "Traffic is definitely increasing. People are getting more comfortable traveling," Becker said.

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