{"id":1364,"date":"2016-06-02T00:23:23","date_gmt":"2016-06-02T05:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=1364"},"modified":"2016-06-02T00:31:45","modified_gmt":"2016-06-02T05:31:45","slug":"southwest-airlines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=1364","title":{"rendered":"Southwest Airlines files for new service to Mexican beaches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Southwest Airlines<\/strong> has filed to offer\u00a0new nonstop service from Los Angeles to 3 fabulous Mexican Beach destinations. The airline petitioned the Department of Transportation to grant it permission to operate new routes from the Los Angeles International Airport to the Mexican resort towns of\u00a0Canc\u00fan, Puerto Vallarta, and San Jos\u00e9 del Cabo. Southwest Airlines is requesting to provide\u00a0service twice\u00a0a\u00a0day to both Canc\u00fan and San Jos\u00e9 del Cabo, and once a day to Puerto Vallarta starting on\u00a0November 6, 2016.\u00a0The\u00a0request\u00a0needs\u00a0extra bilateral authority from the DOT to allow the carrier to fly\u00a0the routes\u00a0during an interim period. The United States and M\u00e9xico\u00a0governments are still working together to finalize\u00a0a new\u00a0Aviation Agreement between the two countries that has already been agreed to in principle.\u00a0According to some air fare trend analysis, the\u00a0new competition in those three Los Angeles\u00a0and M\u00e9xico markets could drive\u00a0fares down by more than 20%.\u00a0Southwest Airlines already\u00a0offers daily service from Los Angeles International Airport to Liberia, Costa Rica. The airline already\u00a0serves four destinations\u00a0in M\u00e9xico from the\u00a0United\u00a0States.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1377\" src=\"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/southwest-airlines-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"southwest airlines\" width=\"641\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/southwest-airlines-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/southwest-airlines-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/southwest-airlines.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 641px) 100vw, 641px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">image from hardrock.com<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">To see a list of the 8 best Mexican Beaches, click this link:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/travel.usnews.com\/Rankings\/Best_Mexico_Beaches\/\" target=\"_blank\">usnews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Southwest Airlines has filed to offer\u00a0new nonstop service from Los Angeles to 3 fabulous Mexican Beach destinations. The airline petitioned the Department of Transportation to grant it permission to operate new routes from the Los Angeles International Airport to the Mexican resort towns of\u00a0Canc\u00fan, Puerto Vallarta, and San Jos\u00e9 del Cabo. Southwest Airlines is requesting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[343,341,345,250,340,342,344,84],"class_list":["post-1364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation-news","tag-cabo-san-lucas","tag-cancun","tag-hard-rock-cancun","tag-lax","tag-los-angeles","tag-puerto-vallarta","tag-san-jose-del-cabo","tag-southwest-airlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1364"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1379,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1364\/revisions\/1379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}