SWA winter schedule to include additional Ft. Myers routes; Kansas City-SEA scrapped

Southwest Airlines announced "a shuffling of frequencies" for its January/February 2011 flight schedule, including the elimination of Kansas City-Seattle flights from Jan. 9. Writing on SWA's blog, available on its website, Schedule Planning Department Lead Planner Bill Owen said Long Island Islip-Ft. Myers service will be resumed from Feb. 13 while Nashville-Ft. Myers flights will also be launched that day. He said the MCI-SEA service "in all likelihood...will return" by the 2011 summer. No new cities were announced.

The rest of the changes involve frequency adjustments that reflect "the seasonal traffic ebb and flow," Owen wrote. Phoenix will be the "largest gainer" with 10 added departures per day to bring its daily total to 183, he said. Orlando will gain eight additional daily departures. Las Vegas remains the "busiest SWA station" with 213 daily weekday departures scheduled this winter, Owen stated.