Southwest Airways has added its fourth partnership with a world airline.
The provider on Tuesday introduced a brand new tie-up with Philippine Airways. As a part of the interline settlement, you’ll e book an itinerary that features a seamless connection between Southwest and the Manila-based provider.
Finally, 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 related preparations with Icelandair, China Airways and EVA Air earlier this yr.
Like these partnerships, the Philippine Airways setup shall be a bit restricted from the outset. For now, you may solely be capable of e book joint Southwest-Philippine Airways itineraries by Philippine Airways’ web site or sure third-party reserving platforms like Expedia.
Clients will be capable of join by 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 could possibly 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?
Necessary to notice: you will not be capable of earn (or redeem) Speedy Rewards factors on these journeys … at the least for now.
Nevertheless, Southwest executives have mentioned they hope to increase many of those worldwide partnerships within the close to future to permit each incomes and redemption, as a method for patrons to make use of Southwest factors on a worldwide scale.
So, this partnership (and others prefer it) will probably be a much more engaging choice to Southwest loyalists — at the least 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 shoppers a chance to start or finish their journey with Southwest,” Andrew Watterson, Southwest’s chief working officer, mentioned in a assertion Tuesday.
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Rising associate record
Southwest is the second new U.S. airline associate for Philippine Airways. Earlier this yr, Philippine Airways introduced a tie-up with Alaska Airways. By way 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 consists of Guam’s Antonio B. Received Pat Worldwide Airport (GUM) and New York Metropolis’s John F. Kennedy Worldwide Airport (JFK).
The provider isn’t at present a part of any of the three main international airline alliances.
As for Southwest, the provider on Tuesday mentioned it is “actively exploring” extra transatlantic partnerships “for later this yr.”
To date, three of its first 4 companions are carriers based mostly throughout the Pacific.
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