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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 ...
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 ...
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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]
Rank Country Airport City Passengers Change 22-21 1 Colombia El Dorado International Airport: Bogotá: 36'478,591 [1]: 55.35% 2 Brazil São Paulo–Guarulhos International Airport
This is a list some of technology centers throughout the world. Government planners and business networks often incorporate "silicon" or "valley" into place names to describe their own areas as a result of the success of Silicon Valley in California. Metrics may be applied to measure qualitative differences between these places, including:
Name Industry Market capitalization (USD billions) Headquarters 1 Saudi Aramco: Oil and gas: 2,083.70 Saudi Arabia 2 TSMC: Electronics: 481.28 Taiwan: 3 Samsung Electronics: Electronics: 386.91 South Korea 4 Tencent: Technology: 355.05 China 5 Kweichow Moutai: Beverages: 297.91 China 6 Toyota: Automotive: 251.20 Japan 7 ICBC: Banking: 223.89 ...
This article lists the world's busiest container ports (ports with container terminals that specialize in handling goods transported in intermodal shipping containers), by total number of twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) transported through the port. The table lists volume in thousands of TEU per year.