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However, the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 was enacted on 27 December 2020, providing $15 billion in airline aid, and Southwest rescinded the furlough notices and pay cuts. [196] Southwest posted a US$3.1 billion loss for fiscal year 2020, the first time the airline had not turned an annual profit since 1972. [197]
Southwest Airlines was founded in 1966 by Herbert Kelleher and Rollin King, and incorporated as Air Southwest Co. in 1967.Three other airlines (Braniff, Trans-Texas Airways, and Continental Airlines) took legal action to try to prevent the company from its planned strategy of undercutting their prices by flying only within Texas and thus being exempt from regulation by the federal Civil ...
The crisis spanned December 21–30, at the peak of the holiday travel season, and is referred to in the news media as the Southwest Airlines holiday travel meltdown [3] or simply as the holiday meltdown, [4] [5] [6] a name also used by the Southwest Airlines pilot's union [7] and the U.S. Department of Transportation. [8]
Last August, Southwest’s market share was 14.7%. It was 20% in August 2019, before the pandemic. International: Only about 16% of Southwest’s total passengers at Fort Lauderdale have been ...
In order to stay above water, most airlines in the U.S. have restructured their schedules and created new guidelines with pandemic safety in mind. Coronavirus and air travel: What airlines are ...
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The Department of Transportation sued Southwest Airlines, accusing it of selling flights with unrealistic schedules. Southwest operated chronically delayed flights on two routes in 2022, the DOT said.