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Country’s largest domestic airline expanding service at Gerald R. Ford International Airport

WGVU News | By Patrick Center
Published October 27, 2023 at 5:20 PM EDT
Southwest Airlines planes taxi at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport in July 2019. Southwest is facing a discrimination suit after an employee allegedly reported a passenger to police on suspicion of child trafficking.
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Southwest Airlines planes taxi at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport in July 2019. Southwest is facing a discrimination suit after an employee allegedly reported a passenger to police on suspicion of child trafficking.

Southwest Airlines adds connection to Nashville.

Southwest Airlines has served the Gerald R. Ford International Airport for the past decade. Beginning next year, Southwest is adding a Grand Rapids connection to Nashville. GRR leadership explains the Nashville destination provides business and leisure passengers with yet another southeast connection.

The new service begins June 2024 with Saturday and Sunday non-stop flights. Southwest Airlines will operate Boeing 737-700’s featuring 143 seats. Tickets are now on sale at Southwest.com.

Nashville makes for Southwest’s seventh destination out of Ford International.
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Patrick Center
Patrick joined WGVU Public Media in December, 2008 after eight years of investigative reporting at Grand Rapids' WOOD-TV8 and three years at WYTV News Channel 33 in Youngstown, Ohio. As News and Public Affairs Director, Patrick manages our daily radio news operation and public interest television programming. An award-winning reporter, Patrick has won multiple Michigan Associated Press Best Reporter/Anchor awards and is a three-time Academy of Television Arts & Sciences EMMY Award winner with 14 nominations.
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