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Southwest Airways’ deliberate enlargement to Europe is shortly changing into a actuality.
The Dallas, TX-based service lately shared with Journey + Leisure that it has formally signed a joint business settlement with Icelandair to start flights between the 2 airways beginning in February 2025. The inaugural Icelandair flights will take off from Baltimore, MD (BWI) airport to Reykjavik, Iceland, though a particular launch day inside February has not been disclosed.
As soon as in Iceland, vacationers can hook up with Amsterdam, Barcelona, Berlin, Dublin, Paris, Prague, and different locations all through Europe inside Icelandair’s route community. Better of all, the flights will function as codeshare flights, which suggests a passenger can examine their baggage via to a closing vacation spot.
After the launch of the Baltimore connection, Southwest plans to roll out an analogous connection program to each Denver Worldwide Airport and Nashville Worldwide Airport as extra North American gateway cities.
For instance, a traveler may fly from Chicago to Baltimore on Southwest, after which join in Baltimore to Icelandair. The traveler would solely must examine their bag as soon as, after which be capable of use a single reserving itinerary for the whole journey, regardless of involving two airways. This can be a related settlement to how United Airways companions with Lufthansa or Air Canada for choose worldwide routes.
Icelandair can also be recognized for its stopover program, which offers vacationers the chance to go to Iceland for as much as per week with none extra fare. The airline explains it’s a straightforward option to go to two locations for the worth of 1.
“Past a capability to supply one another’s Prospects entry to new locations and like-minded journey experiences centered round hospitality and worth, we’re grateful to have been guided by their experience and finest practices in constructing our program,” Southwest Airways’ Chief Transformation Officer Ryan Greer stated on the signing occasion.
Southwest had beforehand introduced its European enlargement in September 2024 throughout an Investor Day.
