Southwest Airlines has taken advantage of a small airport that serves the Vinícola country in California as its newest destination.
The flights to Santa Rosa Charles M. Schulz – Sonoma County Airport (STS) in northern California will begin on April 7 and will come in the middle of an intensifying grass war in the gold state.
Southwest It will fly Four routes of Santa Rosa, including the daily service for San Diego and Las Vegas. Bubank flights will work five times a week, while Denver’s service will be only on Saturday.
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STS is located about 60 miles north of San Francisco in Sonoma County and next to Napa County, two of the best known wine regions of California.
The arrival of Southwest will give Santa Rosa three carriers. Alaska Airlines, the most busy airline in STS, flies eight airport routes, while American Airlines offers two.
Santa Rosa will be the 14th destination of the Southwest in California, a southwest of the State has long enjoyed a strong presence. But the carrier faces new competitive pressures there, particularly The rapid growth of Alaska Airlines in San Diego And of the carriers trying to fill the void in bubank from the imminent departure from the Avelo budget bearer.
Competence in high marching STS in April 2021 with The arrival of the Startup Avelothat finally flew to as many as Eight STS routes. That he drew A competitive answer of several airlines in the West, Including AlaskaIn STS.
But Avelo announced in July that he would abandon all its operation on the west coastwhich leads several carriers to present Route filling service which had offered from numerous airports, including STS and Hollywood Burbank (Bur) airport near Los Angeles.
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Now Southwest is picking two of the STS routes left by Avelo: Las Vegas and Burbank. Southwest will compete with Alaska on both routes, as well as Alaska’s rapid growth operation In San Diego.
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Southwest referred to the competitive Aviation Market of California to announce STS as its newest destination.
“Adding Charles M. Schulz County Airport Sonoma Sonom statement.
“Southwest offers, without regional carriers, more intra-corifornia service than any other airline. It also leads in available seats, daily exits and with pride most passengers in the golden state,” Southwest added in the statement, although it excludes regional affiliates from their rivals drastically under market share.
In more general terms, the addition of STS continues a recent expansion of Southwest. With the new destination, the airline has now announced four new destinations in 2025 after not adding any during the previous four years. The other new cities announced this year are KnoxvilleTennessee; St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands of the United States; and the Caribbean island of San Maarten.
At least one more seems to be on his way, with Southwest saying that “he intends to tie another new destination to his route map soon.”
Meanwhile, for the new city of Southwest in California, it remains to be seen, or how, the rivals could answer there. Stay tuned …
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