Southwest Airlines Adds Second Nonstop from Tucson to Denver August 15

Southwest Airlines has announced it will add a second daily nonstop flight from Tucson to Denver on August 15, 2010. Both flights are on board Boeing 737 aircraft.

Monday through Fridays, the flights:

Depart TIA at 6:10 a.m. arrive in Denver 9:05 a.m.
Depart TIA at 3:35 p.m. arrive in Denver 6:20 p.m.

Depart Denver at 12:10 p.m. arrive TIA at 1:00 p.m.
Depart Denver at 8:40 p.m. arrive TIA at 9:30 p.m.

Weekend flight schedules vary, departing TIA in the morning and afternoon.

Southwest also flies nonstop daily from Tucson to Albuquerque, Chicago Midway, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, and San Diego.

Tucson currently has eight airlines providing 65 daily nonstop departures to 15 destinations. They include : Alaska (Seattle/Tacoma); American (Dallas/Ft. Worth, Chicago O’Hare); Continental (Houston); Delta (Atlanta, Minneapolis, Salt Lake City); Frontier (Denver); United (Denver, Los Angeles, San Francisco); and US Airways (Phoenix).

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Kim Stevens

Kim Stevens is the publisher of State Aviation Journal, which he founded in 2009. A longtime commercial-rated pilot, he was introduced to state aviation in 1992 as Director of the Nebraska Department of Aeronautics, later serving as Deputy Division Director for the Arizona Department of Transportation's Aeronautics Division. From 2013 to 2018, he was Director of Communications and Operations for the National Association of State Aviation Officials (NASAO) in Washington, D.C. Relocating to North Carolina, Kim worked for the Raleigh-Durham International Airport for two years and now concentrates solely on the Journal. Prior to his aviation career, Kim spent a decade in the newspaper and magazine business.