Actually WN started Florida service in 94, I remember cause that was also the year they bought out Morris Air which is where I was working at the time, then the Florida expansion happend into 4 or 5 cities overnight, plus all the Morris Air cities that WN didn't serve yet also came online with them. 1994 was a very BIG year (growth wise) for Southwest.
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Actually WN started Florida service in 94, I remember cause that was also the year they bought out Morris Air which is where I was working at the time, then the Florida expansion happend into 4 or 5 cities overnight, plus all the Morris Air cities that WN didn't serve yet also came online with them. 1994 was a very BIG year (growth wise) for Southwest.
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Actually, Jim is correct. FL service was added in 1996; TPA and FLL in Jan, MCO in Apr (see link below). 1994 was a big expansion year for WN with 7 new cities coming online, but they were all on the west coast.
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That's where I got it too, so I can't claim a super memory or anything like that....
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They also flew to MLU from MSY, I believe, for a while. Also in the same general area, Air Midwest also flew to TUP from BNA, as well as BNA-LIT for a brief period in the late 1990s
We're forgetting the granddaddy of them all: Henson operating as Allegheny Commuter is generally acknowledged to be the country's first code-share agreement between an independent commuter and a major airline. In 1967, Henson started flying between HGR and BWI under the Allegheny Commuter name.
Others...
There was RDU-AVL service operated by ZV - the flight went in a circle RDU-AVL-GSP-RDU and reverse. Part of a BE1 thing out of RDU that also had service to ORF and CHS, IIRC.
There was also MCO-PIE by FloridaGulf (ZV in disguise), but those flights were horribly timed and essentially useless. No wonder they failed. I took it once just for grins because my hometown is PIE and I'd never flown in/out of that airport. I was the only pax onboard in both directions. But why bother with CLT-MCO-PIE when CLT-TPA is available and the airports are 5 miles apart as the crow flies and 15 minutes by car (traffic and the Howard Frankland Bridge willing)?
Also at some point TPA-GNV...a good way to escape being a stuck TPA non-rev.
And, lest we forget, INT-CLT. I know it's to a hub, but it's nostalgic. Again with the badly timed flights, and a variety of yucky aircraft (Shorts, J31). I used it a lot and was sad to see it go away.
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There was RDU-AVL service operated by ZV - the flight went in a circle RDU-AVL-GSP-RDU and reverse. Part of a BE1 thing out of RDU that also had service to ORF and CHS, IIRC.
There was also MCO-PIE by FloridaGulf (ZV in disguise), but those flights were horribly timed and essentially useless. No wonder they failed. I took it once just for grins because my hometown is PIE and I'd never flown in/out of that airport. I was the only pax onboard in both directions. But why bother with CLT-MCO-PIE when CLT-TPA is available and the airports are 5 miles apart as the crow flies and 15 minutes by car (traffic and the Howard Frankland Bridge willing)?
Also at some point TPA-GNV...a good way to escape being a stuck TPA non-rev.
And, lest we forget, INT-CLT. I know it's to a hub, but it's nostalgic. Again with the badly timed flights, and a variety of yucky aircraft (Shorts, J31). I used it a lot and was sad to see it go away.
