Southwest to end flights from Ohio airport to 3 cities

NORTH CANTON, Ohio (AP) — Southwest Airlines is eliminating nonstop flights next year from Akron-Canton Airport in northeast Ohio to Tampa, Las Vegas and Orlando.

Officials said Tuesday the flights will end April 12. Southwest will then start providing customers with three daily round-trip flights to the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport.

Flight times from Akron-Canton to Atlanta will depart at 6:05 a.m., 6:15 a.m. and 10:45 a.m. in April.

The company announced in May it was cutting nonstop service from the airport to four cities: Washington D.C., Denver, Boston and New York City.

Southwest told WEWS-TV that the new network design is focused on providing better and more-reliable access to more of the company’s networks.