Havana becomes the 100th city on Southwest's route map

Southwest is now flying to 100 destinations, the carrier's route map hitting the century mark on Monday as it launched its first flights to Havana, Cuba. The carrier is flying to the Cuban capital non-stop from the Florida cities of Fort Lauderdale and Tampa. The flights – two daily round-trip flights from Fort Lauderdale and one from Tampa – are part of the 20 total daily flights US airlines are now allowed to fly to Havana. Six other carriers – American, Delta, Frontier, JetBlue, Spirit and United – have already launched their allotted flights to Havana. Additional flights have been approved to smaller Cuban cities. That Havana would be the city to push Southwest to 100 destinations would have seemed unthinkable just a few years ago. It was just in July 2014 that Southwest made its first international flight with its own planes, flying outside the United States for the first time since it started operations in 1971. Now, Southwest is flying to nine countries, including the USA. The airline's first Cuba flights began in November with service to the beach resort city of Varadero.<br/>