Airline grows its Golden State footprint to 14 airports
DALLAS, Sept. 10, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — It’s a September shock as Southwest Airways Co. (NYSE: LUV) is asserting service to Santa Rosa, California’s Charles M. Schulz Sonoma County Airport (STS) is about to start April 7, 2026, with preliminary flights out there for buy tomorrow morning at Southwest.com®.
“We aren’t slowing down in our pursuit to supply Prospects with extra choices than ever earlier than,” stated Andrew Watterson, Chief Working Officer at Southwest Airways. “Including Charles M. Schulz Sonoma County Airport to our route map supplies extra entry to California’s famed Wine Nation for our Prospects and additional solidifies our yearslong dedication to California.”
Seeing Purple: Woods and WinesInaugural service for Southwest Airways® at Santa Rosa (Sonoma County), California, will join nonstop to San Diego, Las Vegas, Denver, and Burbank, California. The San Diego and Las Vegas routes are set to function day by day, together with two San Diego roundtrips on peak days. Burbank will initially function 5 days per week and Denver will function on Saturdays solely.
The airline beforehand introduced new service to St. Thomas, United States Virgin Islands; Knoxville, Tennessee; and St. Maarten, all scheduled to start all through the primary half of 2026. The airline intends to moor one other new vacation spot to its route map quickly.
California Right here We Come Southwest® gives, with out regional carriers, extra intra-California service than another airline.1 It additionally leads in out there seats, day by day departures, and proudly carries probably the most passengers within the Golden State.1
STS, the airport adorned with the beloved cartoon characters, would be the 14th in Southwest’s California catalog, connecting Wine Nation to the soon-to-open new Terminal 1 in San Diego, in addition to the reimagined Hollywood Burbank Airport on Southwest marketed- and operated-flights.
