Flights to Bahamas in 2015 ?
Dec 23, 2014, 10:27 am
#1
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Flights to Bahamas in 2015 ?
How can I find out if/when Southwest will plan to offer flights to the Bahamas in 2015 ? Specifically from Texas. I have googled it, and went over southwest site but only can see current schedules. I understand flights for Oct/Nov 15 will not be released for a few more months but working on vacation schedules at work and need to block out time. Can anyone help ?
Dec 23, 2014, 7:42 pm
#2
Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: Austin
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Posts: 150
Probably not going to happen. WN just announced new international flights from Houston starting around October 2015. If Bahamas was going to be a destination, they probably would have announced it then.
One suggestion is to fly WN to San Juan then grab a CapeAir flight which services the smaller islands.
One suggestion is to fly WN to San Juan then grab a CapeAir flight which services the smaller islands.
Dec 24, 2014, 11:30 am
#5
Join Date: Feb 2009
Posts: 6,606
When I looked up MSP/NAS it says service stops 1/5/2015.
I thought they recently added the Bahamas
Published scheduled service between (Minneapolis - MSP) and (Nassau - NAS) will be discontinued on 01/05/2015. Please select an alternate date or choose another origination/destination. Please visit the Southwest Airlines interactive route map for alternate choices. (SW100102-
I thought they recently added the Bahamas
Published scheduled service between (Minneapolis - MSP) and (Nassau - NAS) will be discontinued on 01/05/2015. Please select an alternate date or choose another origination/destination. Please visit the Southwest Airlines interactive route map for alternate choices. (SW100102-
Dec 24, 2014, 12:49 pm
#6
Join Date: Aug 2014
Location: Sacramento, CA
Posts: 97
How can I find out if/when Southwest will plan to offer flights to the Bahamas in 2015 ? Specifically from Texas. I have googled it, and went over southwest site but only can see current schedules. I understand flights for Oct/Nov 15 will not be released for a few more months but working on vacation schedules at work and need to block out time. Can anyone help ?
Dec 24, 2014, 8:33 pm
#7
Join Date: Oct 2010
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There are lots of potential fixes to better connect the whole network. IMO more later day flights and Redeyes are probably the best for aircraft utilization putting them back to East Coast/EST. That's a lot more flying and grabbing 2hrs back lost in time zone changes West to East. Airtran had several redeyes...
Dec 25, 2014, 9:52 am
#8
Join Date: Jul 2013
Posts: 5,813
As the service footprint gets larger Southwest will almost certainly need to add later flights and create "focus cities" that start to resemble hubs, otherwise there will be too many places you won't be able to get to and many you might be able to get to but not get back.
Dec 25, 2014, 10:02 am
#9
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Oklahoma
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As the service footprint gets larger Southwest will almost certainly need to add later flights and create "focus cities" that start to resemble hubs, otherwise there will be too many places you won't be able to get to and many you might be able to get to but not get back.
I have wanted to go on some of the international flights but I can rarely ever find connections that work without a overnight stay in one direction or the other.