On February 19, Southwest announced service to Boston's Logan airport, in the Fall of 2009 .[81] Service began August 16, 2009, with five daily roundtrips to both BWI and MDW .[82] Southwest says that it is complementing their service to Manchester, NH and Providence, RI. As reported by the Boston Herald earlier this year, there is a two-gate operation with an additional 2 gates as options at Logan .[83] Southwest is hoping to curve toward business travelers that stay in downtown Boston and bring lower ticket cost and fees to these travelers .[84]