With the arrival of the Chautauqua Airlines (United Express) Canadair CRJ-200 (with many Chautauqua - United Express flights in the region at the time), the airline established a crew base with about 75 pilots and flight attendants in Corpus Christi. Chautauqua closed this crew base in November 2008, and their CRJs no longer operates United Express flights to Corpus Christi. In May 2016, all United Express flights at Corpus Christi were Mesa Airlines Embraer ERJ-175s or ExpressJet Embraer ERJ-145. The Dallas Love Field-Corpus Christi route operated by Southwest Airlines began on August 10, 2019, with one daily round-trip flight between the cities each Saturday. Southwest last flew the route nonstop in 1986.