Southwest’s 2025 Agenda Is Right here — and It Features a Unutilized Pass-country Path

Southwest Airways has expanded its reserving calendar via later fall and plans to introduce a number of untouched and returning home routes.

Flights are actually bookable via Oct. 1, 2025, Southwest shared with T+L. Along side the announcement, the airline will foundation a handful of untouched home routes on Aug. 5, 2025, with a impressive growth out of Orlando: 

• Nashville (BNA) to/from Louisville (SDF): 6x/weekly
• Orlando (MCO) to/from Los Angeles (LAX): As soon as day-to-day
• Orlando (MCO) to/from Miami (MIA): As soon as day-to-day
• Orlando (MCO) to/from Sarasota (SRQ): Two times day-to-day

At the identical while, Southwest will resume a number of home flights, together with once-daily provider between Austin (AUS) and San Francisco (SFO), ultimate flown in 2019; twice-daily provider between Indianapolis (IND) and Chicago (MDW), which used to be discontinued in 2020; and twice-daily provider between Orlando (MCO) and West Palm Seashore (PBI), absent from the agenda since 2002. 

That’s now not all, despite the fact that. Starting Aug. 10, 2025, Southwest will introduce a untouched seasonal provider between Phoenix (PHX) and Santa Barbara (SBA). This West Coast connection will perform simply as soon as weekly, completely on Sundays.

Southwest Airways, recognized for extending its reserving calendar each two months, plans its later agenda leave on February 6, 2025, overlaying move via November 1, 2025. Those updates ceaselessly come with the announcement of untouched routes.

The announcement additionally follows Southwest’s choice to shift its industry fashion to a “24-hour operation,” launching red-eye flights in February 2025, totally on cross-country routes and services and products between the mainland U.S. and Hawaii. 

Moreover, in 2025, the airline will start introducing its new (and somewhat controversial) seats on newly delivered Boeing 737-800 and 737 MAX-8 plane. Day keeping up the usual 3-3 configuration, the redesigned seats will trait a slimmer profile, adjustable headrests, and higher under-seat store length.