Southwest adds direct Chicago, Orange County flights

AIRWAY HEIGHTS — It continues to get easier and easier to get to all kinds of places outside of Spokane with the ease of new non-stop airline travel.

Once the butt of a joke that “you can’t get there from here,” Spokane International Airport announced April 30 that Southwest Airlines will offer new seasonal direct flights to both Chicago and Orange County, Calif. beginning June 6. In addition. direct service to San Jose, Calif. resumes on the same date.

The once-daily flights to Chicago will fly into Midway Airport, connections to Orange County will be through John Wayne Orange County Airport...