PHOENIX (AZFamily) — Flyers in the Valley soon won’t be able to take Southwest Airlines to two major airports
Officials said the airline company will not serve Washington, D.C.’s Dulles International Airport and Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport starting June 4.
Southwest had two direct daily flights to O’Hare and one direct daily flight to Dulles from Phoenix.
All Southwest flights booked after June 4 to and from those airports will be canceled and customers can get a refund through the company’s website or the Southwest app.
Employees at those two airports will have an opportunity to bid for open positions in the company, officials said.
The airliner said it still has flights to those areas, as Chicago’s Midway Airport had flights to more than 80 destinations, including 15 markets they serve from O’Hare until June.
Southwest said it’ll serve the Washington, D.C. area with 271 flights to 79 nonstop destinations from Baltimore’s Washington International and Washington’s Reagan National airports.
Southwest has had flights at Midway Airport for more than 40 years. But the company said operating at Chicago O’Hare has been “challenging.”
This announcement comes about a week after the Federal Aviation Administration met with two other airlines about reducing flights at O’Hare.
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