Southwest Airlines will begin offering services in Hilo early next year, the airline announced today.
New interisland flights between Hilo and Honolulu, as well as from Lihue, Kauai, to Honolulu will be available four times daily in each direction beginning Jan. 19, 2020.
Additionally, nonstop flights between Kona to Kahului, Maui, will be offered once a day in each direction beginning Jan. 19.
Introductory fares offered through Aug. 22 begin at $29 one way, valid for travel on Tuesdays and Wednesday for nonstop service between Jan. 21-March 4, according to a Southwest news release.
New daily service between Sacramento, Calif., and Honolulu will also begin in January, as well as nonstop service between both Oakland, Calif. and San Jose, Calif., to both Lihue and Kona.
Southwest Airlines confirmed in May that it will begin flights to Hilo but did not say when flights to Hilo International Airport would begin.
The airline announced in early March that it would begin service to the state with an inaugural flight between Oakland and Honolulu.
The airline launched service between Oakland and Kahului on April 7 and started flying between Honolulu and San Jose in May. Southwest’s interisland service kicked off at the end of April when it began flying between Honolulu and Maui.
Service between Honolulu and Kailua-Kona began in May.
For more information, visit southwest.com/Hawaii.