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In today's amcostarica a bit on Southwest plans to fly out of Hobby to CR.




http://www.amcostarica.com/morenews6.htm

Where in the paper is it?

I can't find anymore, AMCR is pretty crappy in tring to find articles. But it's in today's Ticotimes. Read the attached file, they mention October flights to Hobby.



http://www.ticotimes.net/2015/01/14/dee ... on-march-7

Here are a few clips from press releases from the Southwest website.

http://www.dallasnews.com/business/airl ... ansion.ece

Published: 05 January 2015 08:22 PM
Updated: 06 January 2015 10:05 AM

Also this year, Southwest plans to add international flights. It has taken over seven AirTran Airways’ international routes since July.
Southwest will start flying from Houston Hobby Airport to Aruba in March. It also has asked federal regulators to let it start flying in fall from Hobby to six international cities: San Jose, Costa Rica; Belize City, Belize; and Cabo San Lucas, Cancún, Mexico City and Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.
Federal law still bans nonstop international flights from Love Field.


http://www.swamedia.com/releases/southw ... by?l=en-US
December 11 2014 - DALLAS
Southwest Airlines Files Applications To Serve Four Destinations In Mexico Plus Belize And Costa Rica From Houston (Hobby)
Service between Houston and six destinations in three countries to begin in October 2015, subject to government approval: Cancun, Mexico City, Puerto Vallarta, and San Jose del Cabo/Los Cabos, Mexico; San Jose, Costa Rica; and Belize City, Belize

Reading up on this, Southwest is putting a lot of time/money ($156 million) into entering the Latin America market with the new international terminal at Hobby. This new terminal will make Hobby into a true international airport complete with Customs and all that fun. Unfortunately, it looks like it is going to be late 2015 (Oct.-Dec) before this new terminal is ready. That is the bad new, there won't be any HOU-SJO non-stop flights or really any Latin America service out of Hobby until it is up and running.

For anyone interested, there is a great website Southwest has about the new terminal at http://www.houhobby.com/

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At his time United has the only direct flights out of Houston to SJO.
In May Spirit will offer four flights a week from IAH to SJO.
Then in October or thereabouts SW will begin flights from HOBBY to SJO.
The price competition should get very interesting.
Of course, Spirit is not going to be attractive to travelers who like to be pampered (if there is such a thing in aviation now days) but it could set a low price benchmark for United and SW to try to match.
I like the way this is setting up.

Can't wait--United has been sticking it to us for a long time..............you can get a ticket out of Hobby now for $491 on Delta (through Atlanta). The direct flight is nice but it's about $167 cheaper.

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I suspect by the end of this year both SW and Spirit will be $350 to $450 and United around $500.
Of course I do not know for certain but I can always hope.