{"id":24241,"date":"2012-03-14T10:54:13","date_gmt":"2012-03-14T16:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/broadcast.branson.com\/?p=24241"},"modified":"2012-03-14T10:56:50","modified_gmt":"2012-03-14T16:56:50","slug":"southwest-airlines-expands-service-to-branson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/broadcast.branson.com\/2012\/03\/14\/southwest-airlines-expands-service-to-branson\/","title":{"rendered":"Southwest Airlines Expands Service To Branson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/broadcast.branson.com-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/branson-airport.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/broadcast.branson.com-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/branson-airport.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"branson-airport\" width=\"200\" height=\"107\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-24051\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>SOUTHWEST AIRLINES EXPANDS SERVICE IN BRANSON<\/strong><br \/>\nAirTran Airways, a wholly owned subsidiary of Southwest Airlines, will fly daily with non-stop service from Branson to Chicago and Houston with service beginning in 30 days.  <\/p>\n<p>BRANSON, MISSOURI (March 14, 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 schedule 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.  \u201cThe great low fares that AirTran is offering on the Chicago and Houston routes, make getting to these cities easier and more affordable than ever.\u201d<br \/>\nOn January 20th, Southwest Airlines committed to serve Branson, Missouri.  Southwest Airlines made the decision to serve Branson, Missouri and to convert AirTran Airways at Branson Airport 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>Branson Airport now has 9 non-stop destinations and one stop connecting service to most major cities in the United States.  For a complete list of destinations available at the Branson Airport, visit www.FlyBranson.com.  <\/p>\n<p>About Branson Airport: Opening its doors May of 2009, Branson Airport LLC is the first privately developed and operated commercial service airport in the United States. Branson Airport is 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 <strong>1-888-FLY-BKG1 (1-888-359-2541)<\/strong>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SOUTHWEST AIRLINES EXPANDS SERVICE IN BRANSON AirTran Airways, a wholly owned subsidiary of Southwest Airlines, will fly daily with non-stop service from Branson to Chicago and Houston with service beginning in 30 days. BRANSON, MISSOURI (March 14, 2012) \u2013 AirTran Airways, which will be converted to Southwest Airlines over time, will begin daily nonstop service [&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":[12,3,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadcast.branson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24241"}],"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=24241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/broadcast.branson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadcast.branson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadcast.branson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadcast.branson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}