Southwest schedule change forces change in Legislature’s floor sessions

Southwest Airlines won’t be getting happy passenger testimonials from 15 North Idaho legislators, reports S-R reporter Tom Sowa. Those 15 senators and representatives’ change in travel arrangements, set in motion by Southwest’s recent elimination of one nonstop flight from Boise to Spokane, is forcing the Idaho Legislature to convene an hour earlier on Fridays. North Idaho lawmakers used to catch a 2:35 p.m. flight to Spokane on Fridays, but now the only Boise-to-Spokane flights on Southwest are at 1 p.m. and 9 p.m.; Southwest is the only airline that flies nonstop between the two cities. You can read Sowa’s full story here in today’s Spokesman-Review.