Southwest Airways introduced, on April 25, 2024,  it can cease flying to 4 airports within the U.S., together with Bush Intercontinental in Houston. This information will likely be an apparent inconvenience for Houston residents and commuters from neighboring states who flew out of IAH.

Satirically Southwest simply began making flights to Bush three years in the past. In response to reviews from Houston’s KTRK, Southwest can also be pulling out of Cozumel Worldwide Airport in Mexico, Bellingham, Washington, and Syracuse, New York. The airline factors to losses of $231 million within the first quarter of the 12 months, brought on by delays in receiving a number of new 737 Max plans from Boeing.

After a panel blew off an Alaska Airways jet in January, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) started an audit of 737 Max. Manufacturing was halted after Boeing failed 33 of 89 audits throughout an examination. In response to NBC, Southwest will be unable to retire a few of its older plans as deliberate. Southwest Airways solely flies Boeing plane, so it continues to face challenges resulting from delays within the supply of plane.

As a substitute of buying 46 new 737 Max 8 planes, it can solely have the ability to get 20 because it stands now. Nevertheless, they don’t seem to be scheduled to reach till someday in 2025. Bob Jordan, CEO of the Dallas, Texas-based airline mentioned Thursday, “To enhance our monetary efficiency, now we have intensified our community optimization efforts to deal with underperforming markets.” Jordan continued. “I wish to sincerely thank our staff, the airports, and the communities for all their unimaginable help through the years.”

Southwest is not the one airline chopping again. In March, JetBlue introduced that it was additionally lowering flights to Los Angeles and Miami to chop prices after its $3.8 billion merger cope with Spirit Airways fell via.