3 April 2020: If you are travelling by Southwest Airlines from 3rd May 2020 to 5th June 2020, you need to pay attention as Southwest Airlines have revised their flight schedule. As per the new schedule the flight activity is reduced by 40 per cent across the airline, by approximately 2,000 flights per day. This is due to low passenger demand, operational disruptions, and the on-going suspension of international service.
In a public statement the Airline said:
"The overall demand for travel remains fluid during this on-going pandemic and we continue to evaluate further reductions. By making a published change to our planned flight activity, we're giving our customers more time with any changes that affect them.
During this time, we are maintaining passenger service to every city we serve, moving cargo around the country, and facilitating our customers' essential travel between nearly every city-pair we previously offered. Some journeys that had been nonstop might now require a same-plane stop or a connection. This scheduling change merely takes forward in time work that is removing roughly 1,500 flights a day from our current operation.
We don't have city-specific or market-specific information to share. Customers who already have booked travel that will be affected by changes will receive updates and will be offered additional flexibility within our existing policies for flight changes in the COVID-19 environment."