Southwest expands service to Hawaii, adds new routes

A year after it first launched flights to Hawaii, Southwest Airlines is expanding its service to the islands, offering new routes between 3 West Coast cities and various destinations in the state beginning in March 2020, the airline Wednesday. The airline will add new daily service from Sacramento to Kahului, Maui as well as daily service from Oakland and San Jose to both Lihue, Kauai and Kona, on the Big Island. These are in addition to daily service between Sacramento and Honolulu, announced earlier this year, which is due to begin Nov 10. Southwest is also adding a new intra-island flight between Honolulu and Kauai, also to begin in November, bringing its total to 34 intra-island flights in a small but expanding network. <br/>