LV-Pittsburgh route planned

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Friday, Feb. 18, 2005 | 10:57 a.m.

Las Vegas will be among the four cities to be served with nonstop flights when Southwest Airlines begins serving Pittsburgh May 4, the company announced Thursday.

The Dallas-based airline, the busiest commercial passenger carrier at McCarran International Airport, will have one daily nonstop round trip to and from Pittsburgh International Airport.

The airline announced that its initial Pittsburgh rollout would include 10 daily round-trip flights, four each to and from Philadelphia and Chicago's Midway Airport, and one each to and from Las Vegas and Orlando, Fla.

Between Las Vegas and Pittsburgh, Southwest will compete with US Airways on the route.

When Southwest announced plans to enter the Pittsburgh market last month, it was widely speculated that Las Vegas would be one of the nonstop routes it would fly.