An American Airlines jet waits to taxi as a Southwest Airlines jet takes off from McCarran International Airport bound for Portland, Ore., on Aug. 15, 2009. Southwest will be adding three nonstop round-trip flights, including an additional one to Portland, when their summer schedule begins in May.
Friday, Dec. 18, 2009 | 11:57 a.m.
Beyond the Sun
When Southwest Airlines’ summer schedule begins May 9, Las Vegas will see a net gain of three nonstop round-trip flights.
The Dallas-based airline announced that it would add five flights and eliminate two from its McCarran International Airport schedule.
McCarran’s busiest carrier has 210 daily flights.
Southwest will add a fourth flight to and from Baltimore, a third to Nashville, Tenn., a fourth to Portland, Ore., and a fourth to Seattle. It also will add a single nonstop flight to and from Norfolk, Va. The airline will cut service from 15 to 14 flights to Phoenix and from nine to eight to San Jose, Calif.
The airline also announced its schedule for its newest destination, Panama City Beach, Fla., with one-stop change-of-planes flights from Las Vegas through Houston, Baltimore and Nashville.
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