![]() ![]() The expansion has occurred in many different ways, some established routes like Washington DC, that saw 770 flights in 2014, expanded to serve 1,327 flights in 2018. Only 3 airports (ATL, DAL, and FLL) flying at least 1M departing Southwest passengers have seen a higher percentage growth than STL's 43.8% over that period. Louis has played a prominent role in Southwest's overall expansion plans. Louis as a connecting airport in it's network. Southwest has served both the local passengers and been increasingly using St. Over the past decade, Southwest has continued its expansion, increasing passenger numbers 67% between 20 to 9.6M, adding new gates from the long shuttered Terminal D, and establishing new routes across the country. Louis' route map along with getting a boost of being allowed to have service direct to Dallas Love-Field beginning in 2006. The airline was steadily expanding before American (post-TWA) reduced service at the airport and then Southwest began to fill in many of the gaps appearing in St. Louis gained some Southwest flights as a good midway point for the airline's all 737 fleet. Southwest began at the airport in the late 80's serving as a low cost alternative to the dominant TWA. Southwest flies more than half of all passengers at Lambert and shows no signs (MAX airplane issues aside) from losing that dominance anytime soon. But these are all dwarfed by Southwest's additions. While other airlines might add a flight or two, they are contributing passenger gains in the tens of thousands or low hundreds of thousands. ![]() Southwest Airlines has been Lambert's largest carrier for over a decade and is almost solely responsible for the passenger gains that have brought the airport's overall passenger counts back to levels not reached since the early 2000's. ![]()
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