Taking some Southwest international flights has been on my mind lately. With all the snow and gloomy weather here in the northern United States, I would like to get somewhere warm, at least for a little bit!
Because I have the Southwest Companion Pass, which lets my wife fly for free no matter if I book a paid or award ticket, they are definitely one of the first places I check when we want / need to go somewhere.
Southwest flies to several international locations, but for whatever reason, the list of which locations have Southwest international flights is hard to come across via Google. I have the same problem trying to find the IHG Point Breaks list.
(READ: Why is the Priority Club / IHG Pointbreaks list so hard to find?!?)
Eventually, I came across their route map, which has the information, but I thought it would be nice to have it in a more readable format. This information does change, but as of 1/6/2017 this is accurate.
List of Southwest international flights to Mexico
- Cabo San Lucas, Mexico (SJD) – from Baltimore, Denver, Houston, Los Angeles, Oakland, Orange County and seasonally from Austin
- Mexico City, Mexico (MEX) – from Houston, Orange County
- Cancun, Mexico (CUN) – service from Atlanta, Baltimore, Chicago, Denver, Fort Lauderdale, Houston, Los Angeles, Milwaukee and seasonally from Austin and San Antonio
- Puerto Vallarta (PVR) – service from Denver, Houston, Los Angeles, Oakland, Orange County
List of Southwest international flights to Caribbean
- Montego Bay, Jamaica (MBJ) – service from Baltimore, Chicago, Fort Lauderdale, Houston, Orlando
- Nassau, Bahamas (NAS) – service from Baltimore, Fort Lauderdale
- Punta Cana, Dominican Republic (PUJ) – service from Atlanta, Baltimore, Chicago
- San Jose, Costa Rica (SJO) – from Baltimore, Houston
- Liberia, Costa Rica (LIR) – service from Baltimore, Houston, Los Angeles
- Aruba (AUA) – service from Atlanta, Baltimore, Chicago, Milwaukee
- San Juan, Puerto Rico (SJU) – technically not “international” I know…. – service from Baltimore, Fort Lauderdale, Houston, Newark, Orlando,Tampa
- Havana Cuba (HAV) – service from Fort Lauderdale, Tampa
- Varadero, Cuba (VRA) – service from Fort Lauderdale
- Santa Clara, Cuba (SNU) – service from Fort Lauderdale
- Belize City, Belize (BZE) – service from Denver, Fort Lauderdale, Houston
- Grand Cayman (GCM) – service from Fort Lauderdale (pending)
Southwest international flights first started when they bought AirTran a few years ago, but have been steadily increasing. Make sure to bookmark this page if you want to know where Southwest is flying internationally!
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I have been floored at how affordable southwest’s international flights are. Definitely the way to go for Caribbean/mexico locations.
Especially with the Companion Pass. 24K for 2 people to go to the Caribbean roundtrip? That’s pretty much impossible to beat
Yea but getting from Phoenix to an airport you can go international from is a hose job.
just a shout out: thanks! this is perfect/useful/indeed-very-readable 😀
trying to plan some father-daughter 6 months of freedom trip (and CA had that very sweet companion pass credit card offer)
p.s. have you been to any of the int’l locations that you’d recommend?