A new year means new resolutions, new opportunities and, importantly for travelers, new flights. Hawaii trips are set to get a bit easier at Southwest Airlines. Greenland will get what may be its first U.
S. nonstop on United Airlines. And a newly beefed-up Alaska Airlines is launching flights to Tokyo and Seoul.
Airlines have unveiled more than 600 new routes to, from or within the United States for 2025, according to Cirium Diio, an aviation analytics firm. Here are some route developments to know as you plan trips this year. - - - A lot is changing at Southwest.
The airline will dump its long-standing open-seating policy in favor of assigned seats, introduce extra-legroom premium seats and launch its first overnight flights. The first of those red-eyes will take off from Las Vegas, Los Angeles and Phoenix late on Feb. 13 and land in Baltimore, Nashville and Orlando on Feb.
14. But the real exciting stuff starts April 8, when Southwest adds red-eyes from Honolulu, Maui and Kona to Las Vegas and Phoenix. None of these are new routes, per se, but the overnight timings mean that Southwest fliers who don’t live on the West Coast will have much faster and shorter trips home from the islands.
Southwest plans to offer up to 33 overnight flights this summer, connecting not only Hawaii to the U.S. mainland, but also San Diego to Baltimore and Sacramento to Orlando.
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