Southwest Airlines and free baggage checking have officially landed at Akron-Canton Airport.
A Southwest jet from Dallas — without paying passengers — landed at the airport on Saturday.
The first flight will take off at 7:25 a.m. today to Chicago’s Midway International Airport. Southwest will have two daily nonstop flights to and from Midway from Akron-Canton. The second daily departure is at 6:45 p.m.
Also today, a nonstop AirTran Airways flight to Denver that began June 3 becomes a Southwest flight.
Eventually, all AirTran flights and operations at Akron-Canton Airport will become Southwest flights, but there is no set date. Southwest purchased AirTran.
AirTran will continue to have 12 daily nonstop flights. Today, two AirTran daily Milwaukee nonstop flights will cease.
The carriers will share ticket and gate locations, marked for both Southwest and AirTran, and all employees will work for Southwest.