{"id":88897,"date":"2025-12-15T19:12:05","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T19:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/88897\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T19:12:05","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T19:12:05","slug":"southwest-to-open-crew-base-at-austin-bergstrom-airport-travel-weekly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/88897\/","title":{"rendered":"Southwest to open crew base at Austin-Bergstrom Airport: Travel Weekly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"headline\" itemprop=\"headline\">Southwest Airlines in March will open a crew base for pilots and flight attendants at Austin-Bergstrom Airport.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Texas city is paying Southwest $5.5 million in incentives to open the base and create 2,000 jobs by mid-2027.<\/p>\n<p>Southwest is Austin&#8217;s largest airline with some 130 peak-day departures. In March, new service begins to Fort Myers, Fla.; Palm Springs, Calif.; and Steamboat Springs (Hayden), Colo., bringing Southwest&#8217;s total of nonstop destinations from Austin to 53.<\/p>\n<p>Southwest also will begin daily service between Austin and Cincinnati next June and has increased seasonal service in Pensacola, Fla.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Southwest Airlines in March will open a crew base for pilots and flight attendants at Austin-Bergstrom Airport.\u00a0 The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88898,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[6551,132,134,133,6207,30271,30272,2053,30273],"class_list":["post-88897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-airline-news","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-aviation","tag-facebook-stories","tag-linkedin-stories","tag-top-stories","tag-twitter-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}