page_title: Southwest Airlines
section_title: Destinations
hierarchical_section_title: Southwest Airlines / Destinations and bases / Destinations
caption_attribution_description: English: A Southwest 737-700 departing Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport.
context_page_description: Southwest Airlines Co. is a major American airline headquartered in Dallas, Texas, and is the world's largest low-cost carrier.
  The airline was established on March 15, 1967 by Herb Kelleher as Air Southwest Co. and adopted its current name, Southwest Airlines Co., in 1971, when it began operating as an intrastate airline wholly within the state of Texas, first flying between Dallas, Houston and San Antonio. The airline has more than 60,000 employees and operates about 4,000 departures a day during peak travel season.
  As of 2018, Southwest carried the most domestic passengers of any United States airline. The airline has scheduled services to 103 destinations in the United States and ten additional countries.
context_section_description: To date, Southwest schedules flights to 103 destinations in 40 states (and Puerto Rico), Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean. Southwest does not use the hub and spoke system of other major airlines, preferring the point-to-point system, combined with a rolling hub model in its base cities.
caption: A Southwest 737-700 departing Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport
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