Southwest Airlines’ New Routes Include Flights to That One Place You Swore You’d Never Visit Again, and Memes Are Already Booking Their Seats
In a move that has the internet collectively LOLing into their tiny bags of pretzels, Southwest Airlines has announced a massive expansion of its route network, including surprisingly specific new destinations like Boise, Idaho, and Eugene, Oregon. The irony, of course, is that travelers have been begging for more flights to major hubs and beach resorts, but Southwest responded by adding direct routes to the exact towns where your college roommate’s cousin lives and where every single person you met on a hiking trip promised they’d one day “retire.” Meme historians are already calling this the “We Have Cancun at Home” expansion, as viral posts flood X with screenshots of the new map juxtaposed against photos of crowded airports, captioned: “Finally, an affordable way to visit the cornfield I’ve been ignoring.”