{"id":22061,"date":"2012-01-25T09:07:24","date_gmt":"2012-01-25T15:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/broadcast.branson.com\/?p=22061"},"modified":"2015-10-06T15:12:47","modified_gmt":"2015-10-06T21:12:47","slug":"southwest-airlines-expands-service-in-branson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/broadcast.branson.com\/2012\/01\/25\/southwest-airlines-expands-service-in-branson\/","title":{"rendered":"Southwest Airlines Expands Service in Branson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/broadcast.branson.com-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/branson-airport.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/broadcast.branson.com-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/branson-airport.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"branson-airport\" width=\"200\" height=\"107\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-22071\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>NEWS RELEASE<br \/>\nFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:<br \/>\nTuesday, January 24, 2012<\/p>\n<p><strong>SOUTHWEST AIRLINES EXPANDS SERVICE IN BRANSON<\/strong><br \/>\nAirTran Airways, a wholly owned subsidiary of Southwest Airlines, announced today daily nonstop service from Branson to Chicago and Houston<\/p>\n<p>BRANSON, MISSOURI (January 24, 2012) \u2013 AirTran Airways, which will be converted to Southwest Airlines over time, will begin daily nonstop service from Branson to Chicago and Houston starting April 16, 2012.  <\/p>\n<p>Chicago and Houston are major Southwest markets with connecting service to many great destinations.  While the airlines&#8217; networks are not connected at this point, both carriers are working together to publish the best flight schedules to places customers want to go. When the networks are connected, people traveling to and from these areas will have access to many more cities. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese new daily flights to Chicago and Houston are very exciting because Chicago and Houston are large visitation markets for Branson\u201d stated Executive Director, Jeff Bourk.  \u201cUltimately, these routes will tie into the Southwest network, giving passengers many more low cost choices to get where our passengers want to go.\u201d<br \/>\nOn Friday, Southwest Airlines committed to serve Branson, Missouri.  Southwest Airlines made the decision to serve Branson, Missouri and to convert AirTran Airways at Branson to Southwest Airlines operations over time.<br \/>\n&#8220;We are committed to continuing to serve these communities\u2014at first via AirTran, and eventually as Southwest. We know there are Southwest Customers who want access to these cities, but have never before had the opportunity, and the markets have long desired Southwest service,&#8221; said Southwest Airlines Executive Vice President &#038; Chief Commercial Officer and AirTran Airways President Bob Jordan. &#8220;We are excited about the cities we have chosen to keep in our combined network.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For a complete list of destinations available at the Branson Airport, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.FlyBranson.com\">www.FlyBranson.com<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p><strong>About Branson Airport:<\/strong> Opening its doors May of 2009, Branson Airport LLC is the first privately developed and operated commercial service airport in the United States. Currently serviced by Southwest Airlines\/AirTran Airways and Frontier Airlines. Located in the heart of the Ozarks and centrally located in the Midwest, the airport also boasts a state of the art FBO, Branson JetCenter and a full service travel agency, FlyBranson Travel.  The Airport offers low cost service to over 100 destinations. For more information visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.FlyBranson.com\">www.FlyBranson.com<\/a> or call toll free 1-888-FLY-BKG1 (1-888-359-2541).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEWS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Tuesday, January 24, 2012 SOUTHWEST AIRLINES EXPANDS SERVICE IN BRANSON AirTran Airways, a wholly owned subsidiary of Southwest Airlines, announced today daily nonstop service from Branson to Chicago and Houston BRANSON, MISSOURI (January 24, 2012) \u2013 AirTran Airways, which will be converted to Southwest Airlines over time, will begin daily [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes"},"categories":[12,16,18,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadcast.branson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22061"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadcast.branson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadcast.branson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadcast.branson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadcast.branson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/broadcast.branson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22061\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadcast.branson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadcast.branson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadcast.branson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}