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Shares of the leading U.S. airlines rose after the opening bell Thursday. Southwest Airlines Co. gained 3% and American Airlines Group Inc., based in Fort Worth, Texas, rose 5% in late-morning ...
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. (AP Photo/Matt York ...
A passenger exited a Southwest Airlines plane through a rear door while the aircraft was taxiing to a gate at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport.
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]
Southwest does not use the "hub and spoke" system of other major airlines, preferring instead the "point-to-point" system with focus cities. [3] It has large operations in certain airports. An average of 80 percent of Southwest passengers are local passengers—only 20 percent are connecting passengers, a lower percentage than on most major ...
Among other recent close calls was a 2023 near-collision at the Austin-Bergstrom International Airport in Texas, where a FedEx Boeing 767 and a Southwest Airlines Boeing 737, were, at their ...
The airport serves as a hub for American Airlines and a base for Frontier Airlines and Southwest Airlines. The airport is also home to the 161st Air Refueling Wing (161 ARW), an Air Mobility Command (AMC)–gained unit of the Arizona Air National Guard. The military enclave is known as Goldwater Air National Guard Base.
Southwest Airlines is cutting back on flights to some airports − and pulling out of a few others − because of a disappointing financial start to 2024 and delays in receiving new planes ...