Southwest Airlines Relaunching Nassau Flights

By: Caribbean Journal Staff - July 4th, 2021

Southwest Airlines is relaunching a pair of routes to Nassau in the Bahamas, Caribbean Journal has learned.

The low-cost carrier is planning to resume two routes to Nassau’s Lynden Pindling Airport in October.

That includes the relaunch of daily flights from Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport to Nassau on Oct. 7, along with the resumption of service from Baltimore-Washington Thurgood Marshall International Airport on Oct. 9.

The latter will include weekend service, according to the carrier.

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— CJ

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