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I’m excited to share that we’ve just signed documents with our second airline partner, China Airlines, which serves routes between Taipei, Taiwan, and four airports in our network—LAX, SFO, SEA, and ONT. Those will be our initial gateway stations as we begin connecting Customers and bags to and from China Airlines flights in early 2026. We’re preparing for those interline itineraries to go on sale later this year, initially through channels directed by China Airlines including third-party travel sites like Expedia, Google Flights, and Kayak. We continue to move toward an ability to sell these journeys at
Southwest.com and in our channels.
Our work to develop Airline Partnerships is one of the many exciting areas where we’re investing in the future of Southwest. Not only do these relationships literally bring our Customers more choice with new ways to get to new places, but they are also helping transform and transport Southwest to a new place as a Company in new spotlights on the global stage.
I’m honored to represent all of you this week at the 2025 Annual General Meeting of IATA,
the International Air Transport Associationwe joined earlier this year. This year’s AGM is in New Delhi, India, which is why we signed the China Airlines agreement while our redeyes were in the air overnight. We’re also meeting here with Icelandair and are excited to announce additional gateways (MCO, PIT, RDU) coming online in July as our initial airline partnership continues to develop as expected. Since beginning to partner with Icelandair in the first quarter, we’ve already connected dozens of cities on our network with Europe.