Southwest Airlines is getting closer to adding Hawaii flights, a vacation destination travelers have been begging the nation’s largest domestic airline to add for years.
Southwest CEO Gary Kelly, in Phoenix on Wednesday for Southwest’s annual shareholders meeting, said flights to Hawaii are a high priority for the airline. In contrast, he said Canada flights are on the airline’s radar but not a priority.
«We’re deciding what our plans are for 2018 and Hawaii is important to us,» Kelly said in a meeting with reporters after the shareholder event in downtown Phoenix.
For the first time in a few years, Kelly said, Southwest had a wide open agenda for 2018. The airline focused on new Dallas flights in 2015, added international flights in Houston in 2016 and this year is adding a new international terminal in Fort Lauderdale…
