Southwest adds another nonstop flight from KCI starting this summer
Get your summer calendar ready!
Southwest is continuing to add nonstop flights from Kansas City International Airport to hotspots all over the country, this time to Raleigh, North Carolina.
The flight to the Raleigh-Durham International Airport will start in June through September. The service won’t be daily, but it will be filling a major gap in nonstop service between the two cities.
Frontier used to offer a nonstop service to Raleigh, but that service was cut in 2019.
A Southwest spokesperson told The Star that the airline ran this flight last summer and is bringing it back this year.
The added service is one of the latest routes added to Kansas City’s airport since the opening of the new $1.5 billion single terminal.
In March, Southwest Airlines announced its new nonstop routes from Kansas City to Sangster International Airport in Montego Bay, Jamaica, and to Los Cabos International Airport in San Jose del Cabo, Mexico.
“We are proud to have worked with Southwest Airlines to expand domestic and international service out of Kansas City and expect more exciting new flight announcements ahead,” Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas said in a statement.
Editor’s note: This story was updated to reflect that Southwest is bringing the flight back from last year instead of it being brand new.
This story was originally published April 5, 2023 at 1:45 PM.
