The United States-based Southwest Airlines has decided to raise, across its system, the number of flights on 42 routes (by one trip a day, as a rule) and cut one flight a day on 92 other routes between January 9, 2010, and March 12, 2010.

Southwest Airlines, the low-cost airline based in Dallas, Texas, the United States, will launch a new service from Minneapolis-St Paul International Airport to Chicago Midway International Airport on March 8, 2009, with 8 daily round trips and $69 one-way fares.