Southwest Airlines extends flight schedule through June 6, 2020

Southwest Airlines today extended its flight schedule through early June 2020, putting two destinations in Hawaii within quicker reach for the carrier’s San Diego Customers.

Aloha, Soon Diego!

Once daily service between San Diego and Kahului on Maui begins April 14, 2020
Once daily service between San Diego and Honoluluon Oahu begins April 20, 2020

Additional interisland service is also part of today’s flight schedule announcement. Beginning April 14, 2020, Southwest will offer six flights daily in each direction on interisland service between Honolulu and Kahului, an increase from the current offering of four flights directionally.

Inclusive of today’s announcements, Southwest will offer 28 flights daily between California and the Islands, and 38 departures a day on interisland service. (See below for a full view of Southwest Airlines’ service for Hawaii.)

More for Merrie Monarch Festival

During the 2020 Merrie Monarch festival–a world-famous celebration of Hawaiian culture, art, music, and hula that unites people from across the Islands in Hilo–Southwest will offer additional service between Honolulu and Hilo with a total six flights each way daily from Wed., April 15, through Sat., April 18, 2020, and seven flights each way on Sun., April 19, 2020.

In celebration of new and additional service among the Islands, Southwest also is offering interisland travel in select markets for as low as $29 one-way from Nov. 11, 2019 through March 4, 2020. This fare is available today through 11:59 p.m. Pacific Standard Time on Nov. 4, 2019, for travel on certain days of week with a 21-day advance purchase. Seats are limited and certain blackout dates apply. (Please see complete fare sale rules below.)

More Springtime Travel Options

Next spring, travelers will have more options for travel to and from Baltimore/Washington (BWI). The carrier will add 17 additional departures from BWI on established and popular routes, giving Customers nearly 240 departures a day.

The carrier also is augmenting nonstop service between Lubbockand Houston, as well as Amarillo and Houston. Both markets currently operate nonstop only on Sundays and become a nonstop option on weekdays in mid-April 2020.

Seasonal Service Resumes
Additionally, Southwest announced today the return of several seasonal routes:

Daily service begins April 14, 2020 between:
Boston and Austin
Boston and Dallas

Weekend service begins April 18, 2020 between:
Denver and Charleston, SC
Denver and Norfolk, VA

Saturday service begins April 18, 2020 between:
Albuquerque and Orlando
Rochester, NY and Ft. Lauderdale
Kansas City, MO and Pensacola, Fla.

Sunday service begins April 19, 2020 between:
Austin and Indianapolis
Dallas and Cleveland

Southwest also will resume nonstop service seasonally on international routes that operation on Saturdays and Sundays.

Beginning April 18, 2020, fly on weekends nonstop between:
Atlanta and Cancun
Atlanta and Punta Cana
Oakland and Puerto Vallarta

On Saturday April 18, 2020, the carrier also will resume weekly service on Saturdays between New Orleans and Cancun.

All of these flights, part of the carrier’s overall schedule of more than 4,300 flights on peak days, are now available to book for travel through June 6, 2020.

Summary | Hawaii Daily Schedule (as of end of April 2020):
Today’s announcements highlighted in bold

From

To

OAK

(Oakland)

HNL (2 daily); OGG (2 daily);

KOA (1 daily); LIH (1 daily)

SJC

(San Jose, Calif.)

HNL (1 daily); OGG (1 daily);

KOA (1 daily); LIH (1 daily)

SMF

(Sacramento)

HNL (1 daily) ;

OGG (1 daily)

SAN

(San Diego)

OGG (1 daily) begins April 14, 2020.

HNL (1 daily) begins April 20, 2020.

HNL

(Honolulu)

OAK (2 daily); SJC (1 daily); SMF (1 daily); SAN (1 daily) begins April 20, 2020.

Interisland: OGG (6 daily), & KOA, LIH, ITO (4 daily)

OGG

(Kahului, Maui)

OAK (2 daily); SJC (1 daily); SMF (1 daily); SAN (1 daily) begins April 14, 2020.

Interisland: HNL (6 daily) & KOA (1 daily)

KOA

(Kona, Island of Hawaii)

Mainland (2 daily): OAK and SJC

Interisland: HNL (4 daily); OGG (1 daily)

LIH

(Lihue, Kauai)

Mainland (2 daily): OAK and SJC

Interisland: HNL (4 daily)

ITO

(Hilo, Island of Hawaii)

Interisland: HNL (4 daily)