Is Tampa a focus city for Southwest?

[BillKunde]

Southwest seems to be expanding their presence and holds the majority of existing flight operations out of the airport. It’s not as large as it is at Orlando or Lauderdale, but is Tampa considered a focus city?

[ZevSupport]

According to TPG, yes! https://thepointsguy.com/airport/tpa/

[BillKunde]

According to TPG, yes! 10.0.0.1 https://thepointsguy.com/airport/tpa/

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[floridaguy]

Yes, I believe so.  As long as they don't add Knoxville, I'm a happy guy.

There isn't any reason to be in Knoxville anyway.

[bec102896]

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@floridaguy wrote:

Yes, I believe so.  As long as they don't add Knoxville, I'm a happy guy.

There isn't any reason to be in Knoxville anyway.

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I hope they add Knoxville 

[5280Av8r]

Tampa has sizable Southwest operations for sure, so in some sense it's a focus city, but it's not an official operating base for Southwest. See this press release from SWA Media: https://swamedia.com/releases/nashville-crew-base?lang=en-US

Airports with significant Southwest presence not shown would be Austin, Fort Lauderdale, Kansas City, St. Lous, and Tampa.

Honorable mentions would be Burbank, Columbus, Long Beach, New Orleans, San Antonio, San Diego

So is Tampa a focus city? Kind of, but not officially. I say this because Southwest claims to not have hubs as in a hub and spoke model and call all of their operating bases "focus cities" of which Tampa is not one of those.

[DancingDavidE]

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@BillKunde wrote:

Southwest seems to be expanding their presence and holds the majority of existing flight operations out of the airport. It’s not as large as it is at Orlando or Lauderdale, but is Tampa considered a focus city?

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According to Wikipedia: no

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Southwest_Airlines_destinations

I guess the list of focus cities is the same as the list of crew bases from the other article.