Southwest Long Beach Inaugural
See my video of the arrival and departure. March this year, Southwest announced that they were starting service to Long Beach (LGB) on June 5th. My good friend and fellow photographer Rick suggested us taking the inaugural flight. Southwest had received four slots at the noise-sensitive, capacity-controlled airport and the airline decided to use all four slots for service to Oakland (OAK). This further solidifies SWA’s position as the dominant airline in California, flying to all five Los Angeles area airports (LAX, BUR, ONT, SNA, LGB) – 10 cities in total in California with 160 daily intrastate flights and 19 unique city-pairs.