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re: Will Southwest Airlines fly out of BTR?
Posted on 3/9/26 at 11:31 am to runforrestrun
Posted on 3/9/26 at 11:31 am to runforrestrun
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The existing carriers have attempted to expand service in BTR over the years & can't fill a 50 passenger plane. AA has cut back the DCA flight to just a few days a week. I doubt Southwest ever starts service here. MSY is just too close to much of the BTR market. I've always been curious as to what % Southwests MSY passengers are actually from BTR.
This. Southwest leans heavily into leisure travel. All of the panhandle airports (PNS, VPS, ECP) have Southwest and they load up on weekends during the summer months (PNS has daily flights to/from BNA, HOU, AUS, DAL, STL, MDW, MCI, and DEN during the summer, I imagine its the same at VPS and ECP) Knoxville is at least a gateway to the Smokies, whereas nobody is flying into BTR for leisure with MSY right there.
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Posted on 3/14/26 at 12:35 pm to BRIllini07
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The three airlines servicing BTR literally have a different routing strategy (hub and spoke) compared to Southwest (point to point).
Hub and spoke service to BTR makes sense, enough people want to fly in/out of BTR, and if you’re flying to Baton Rouge you don’t mind the hub connection.
If Southwest flies out of BTR, where is it going?
Southwest uses focus cities which are basically hubs and utilizes a hub and spoke model in their smaller markets. No one is going Pensacola-Jackson-Hobby. They’re just going Pensacola-Hobby, or if they do have a connection it’s at one of their larger bases like Love or Nashville. It would be the same for BR. Southwest only flies to Hobby, Nashville, and Orlando out of Jackson, three of their largest bases, and from there you can go to anywhere in the Southwest system with one flight.
This post was edited on 3/14/26 at 12:40 pm
Posted on 3/15/26 at 8:05 am to PSS101
Repeat after me: Southwest is not a budget airline. Southwest is not a budget airline. Southwest is not a budget airline.
Posted on 3/15/26 at 3:24 pm to The Boat
None of that explains why they would fly out of Baton Rouge when MSY is an hour away
Posted on 3/15/26 at 4:52 pm to cgrand
It takes me almost an hour to get to IAH (or HOU.)
OP probably fantasizes about a non stop to Cancun, rather than being bothered with driving to MSY or connecting through IAH or DFW. But Baton Rouge traffic is so bad, it could take 35 minutes to get from Bluebonnet South of I-10 to BTR to begin with.
OP probably fantasizes about a non stop to Cancun, rather than being bothered with driving to MSY or connecting through IAH or DFW. But Baton Rouge traffic is so bad, it could take 35 minutes to get from Bluebonnet South of I-10 to BTR to begin with.
Posted on 3/16/26 at 6:04 am to PSS101
Southwest just announced pulling out of O'Hare in Chicago. If they can't do O'Hare and Midway, I don't see them wanting to do Baton Rouge. While it's further away then those two, the flight demand is less.
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