Southwest Airways has added its fourth partnership with a world airline.
The service on Tuesday introduced a brand new tie-up with Philippine Airways. As a part of the interline settlement, you’ll ebook an itinerary that features a seamless connection between Southwest and the Manila-based service.
Ultimately, the tie-up might open up Speedy Rewards redemptions to locations in Australia, Southeast Asia and the South Pacific.
Southwest-Philippine Airways partnership
This new partnership comes on the heels of Southwest launching comparable preparations with Icelandair, China Airways and EVA Air earlier this 12 months.
Like these partnerships, the Philippine Airways setup can be a bit restricted from the outset. For now, you will solely be capable of ebook joint Southwest-Philippine Airways itineraries via Philippine Airways’ web site or sure third-party reserving platforms like Expedia.
Clients will be capable of join via considered one of 4 “gateways” the place each airways function:
- Los Angeles Worldwide Airport (LAX)
- San Francisco Worldwide Airport (SFO)
- Seattle-Tacoma Worldwide Airport (SEA)
- Daniel Okay. Inouye Worldwide Airport (HNL)
So, you can conceivably board a Southwest airplane at Harry Reid Worldwide Airport (LAS) in Las Vegas, fly to HNL in Honolulu and join onto a Philippine Airways flight to Manila’s Ninoy Aquino Worldwide Airport (MNL).
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What about Speedy Rewards redemptions?
Vital to notice: you will not be capable of earn (or redeem) Speedy Rewards factors on these journeys … a minimum of for now.
Nevertheless, Southwest executives have stated they hope to develop many of those worldwide partnerships within the close to future to permit each incomes and redemption, as a manner for purchasers to make use of Southwest factors on a worldwide scale.
So, this partnership (and others prefer it) will possible be a much more enticing choice to Southwest loyalists — a minimum of from a factors perspective — sooner or later.
“Every airline partnership brings distinctive and incremental attain to locations across the globe for each carriers and offers extra customers a chance to start or finish their journey with Southwest,” Andrew Watterson, Southwest’s chief working officer, stated in a assertion Tuesday.
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Rising accomplice checklist
Southwest is the second new U.S. airline accomplice for Philippine Airways. Earlier this 12 months, Philippine Airways introduced a tie-up with Alaska Airways. By means of that association, Atmos Rewards members can redeem factors for his or her flights to Manila and elsewhere within the South Pacific.
Together with LAX, SFO, SEA and HNL, Philippine Airways’ U.S. route map contains Guam’s Antonio B. Received Pat Worldwide Airport (GUM) and New York Metropolis’s John F. Kennedy Worldwide Airport (JFK).
The service will not be at present a part of any of the three main world airline alliances.
As for Southwest, the service on Tuesday stated it is “actively exploring” further transatlantic partnerships “for later this 12 months.”
To date, three of its first 4 companions are carriers based mostly throughout the Pacific.
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