Southwest Airlines says it will add 18 new flights at BWI starting next March. The new schedule begins March 14 and runs through May 7. Flights can be booked beginning Tuesday. The March schedule canges reflect differences in seasonal travel patterns with demand increasing during the spring.
Southwest is adding over a hundred weekday flights in total. Other airports that will see noticeable increases include Chicago that gets 21 more daily flights as well as Orlando and Tampa each get 9 more flights.
The airline says that the it is not into growth mode, but is able to add these flights not by adding to its fleet, but by taking advantage of the seasonal decrease in flying time going from Winter into Spring, with an average decrease of five minutes per flight, spread across 3,200 flights a day.
BWI is a Southwest Airlines hub.
Source: Southwest Airlines
Writer: Walaika Haskins