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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]
A Southwest Airlines ground operations crew member waits to guide an arriving jet into a gate, Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2022, at Sky Harbor International Airport in Phoenix.
Southwest reportedly plans to cut some 340 pilots and flight attendants at its busy Atlanta base as it works to shore up profits. Southwest is making big route changes as it prepares to reveal new ...
Southwest Airlines continued to extract itself from sustained scheduling chaos Thursday, cancelling another 2,350 flights after a winter storm overwhelmed its operations days ago. The Dallas ...
Southwest built a 5-gate international terminal at William P. Hobby Airport that opened in 2015. Southwest also built a 5-gate international terminal in Fort Lauderdale that opened in 2017. [9] In 2021, a 5-gate extension of terminal A at Baltimore/Washington International Airport opened. Southwest is the sole occupant of Terminal A and it ...
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 ...
Sep. 26—Southwest Airlines plans to launch a daily, nonstop service between Albuquerque and Nashville next year, bringing the Albuquerque International Sunport its 30th nonstop flight out of the ...
Lamar Muse was elected president and chief executive officer of the company in Jan. 1971. [3] Muse, a Texas native, was a veteran airline executive, having been employed at five different carriers since starting his industry career in 1948, including being the CEO of Central Airlines and CEO and president of Universal Airlines. [11]