Two new Southwest Airlines gates — E31 and E33 — opened Wednesday morning at Lambert-ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ International Airport.
Southwest, which occupies all of Terminal 2, began flights Tuesday to Wichita, Kan., and to Des Moines, Iowa — new nonstop destinations from Lambert — as well as year-round service to Seattle.
Gates E31 and E33 between them, a number expected to grow to 16 in June when Southwest adds flights to Oakland, Calif., Cleveland and Portland, Ore.
Southwest began service to Pittsburgh last month, replacing a nonstop flight from ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ that American Airlines ended in December.
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The airline is the dominant carrier at Lambert and is slated this summer to have more than 100 daily departures to more than 40 nonstop destinations from ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½.
