AIRLINES

Southwest Forced to Reduce Orange County Service: Effective April 1, the number of the Dallas-based carrier’s daily flights at John Wayne Airport will go from 21 to 14. Southwest Airlines Co. said the cuts are necessary for it to meet the change in its capacity allocation for the airport’s 1995-96 access plan year. The facility’s annual passenger limit is 8.4 million. Eliminated will be Southwest’s nonstop service to Phoenix (four daily flights) and Salt Lake City (two daily flights) and one of its current eight daily flights between Orange County and San Jose. People who have already booked flights among those to be eliminated will be accommodated on alternate Southwest flights, the company said.