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Available in 50 languages" > <label id="p-lang-btn-label" for="p-lang-btn-checkbox" class="vector-dropdown-label cdx-button cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--action-progressive mw-portlet-lang-heading-50" aria-hidden="true" > 50 languages </label> <div class="vector-dropdown-content"> <div class="vector-menu-content"> <ul class="vector-menu-content-list"> <li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-af mw-list-item"><a href="https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwest_Airlines" title="Southwest Airlines – Afrikaans" lang="af" hreflang="af" data-title="Southwest Airlines" data-language-autonym="Afrikaans" data-language-local-name="Afrikaans" class="interlanguage-link-target">Afrikaans</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ar mw-list-item"><a href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AE%D8%B7%D9%88%D8%B7_%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%AB_%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%B3%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%A9" title="خطوط ساوث ويست الجوية – Arabic" lang="ar" hreflang="ar" data-title="خطوط ساوث ويست الجوية" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target">العربية</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ast mw-list-item"><a href="https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwest_Airlines" title="Southwest Airlines – Asturian" lang="ast" hreflang="ast" data-title="Southwest Airlines" data-language-autonym="Asturianu" data-language-local-name="Asturian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Asturianu</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bn mw-list-item"><a href="https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%89%E0%A6%A5%E0%A6%93%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BC%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%B8%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%9F_%E0%A6%8F%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BC%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%B2%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%87%E0%A6%A8%E0%A6%B8" title="সাউথওয়েস্ট এয়ারলাইনস – Bangla" lang="bn" hreflang="bn" data-title="সাউথওয়েস্ট এয়ারলাইনস" data-language-autonym="বাংলা" data-language-local-name="Bangla" class="interlanguage-link-target">বাংলা</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwest_Airlines" title="Southwest Airlines – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Southwest Airlines" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target">Català</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwest_Airlines" title="Southwest Airlines – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Southwest Airlines" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target">Čeština</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwest_Airlines" title="Southwest Airlines – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Southwest Airlines" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Dansk</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwest_Airlines" title="Southwest Airlines – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Southwest Airlines" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target">Deutsch</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwest_Airlines" title="Southwest Airlines – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Southwest Airlines" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Eesti</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwest_Airlines" title="Southwest Airlines – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Southwest Airlines" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Español</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwest_Airlines" title="Southwest Airlines – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Southwest Airlines" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target">Esperanto</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwest_Airlines" title="Southwest Airlines – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Southwest Airlines" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target">Euskara</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%AA%E2%80%8C%D9%88%D8%B3%D8%AA_%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%B1%D9%84%D8%A7%DB%8C%D9%86%D8%B2" title="ساوت‌وست ایرلاینز – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="ساوت‌وست ایرلاینز" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target">فارسی</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwest_Airlines" title="Southwest Airlines – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Southwest Airlines" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target">Français</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwest_Airlines" title="Southwest Airlines – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Southwest Airlines" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target">Galego</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%82%AC%EC%9A%B0%EC%8A%A4%EC%9B%A8%EC%8A%A4%ED%8A%B8_%ED%95%AD%EA%B3%B5" title="사우스웨스트 항공 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="사우스웨스트 항공" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target">한국어</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ha mw-list-item"><a href="https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwest_Airlines" title="Southwest Airlines – Hausa" lang="ha" hreflang="ha" data-title="Southwest Airlines" data-language-autonym="Hausa" data-language-local-name="Hausa" class="interlanguage-link-target">Hausa</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwest_Airlines" title="Southwest Airlines – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Southwest Airlines" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Հայերեն</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwest_Airlines" title="Southwest Airlines – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Southwest Airlines" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Bahasa Indonesia</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwest_Airlines" title="Southwest Airlines – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Southwest Airlines" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Italiano</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A1%D7%90%D7%95%D7%AA%27%D7%95%D7%95%D7%A1%D7%98_%D7%90%D7%99%D7%99%D7%A8%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%99%D7%A0%D7%A1" title="סאות'ווסט איירליינס – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="סאות'ווסט איירליינס" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target">עברית</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kn mw-list-item"><a href="https://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B2%B8%E0%B3%8C%E0%B2%A4%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%B5%E0%B3%86%E0%B2%B8%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%9F%E0%B3%8D_%E0%B2%8F%E0%B2%B0%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%B2%E0%B3%88%E0%B2%A8%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%B8%E0%B3%8D" title="ಸೌತ್ವೆಸ್ಟ್ ಏರ್ಲೈನ್ಸ್ – Kannada" lang="kn" hreflang="kn" data-title="ಸೌತ್ವೆಸ್ಟ್ ಏರ್ಲೈನ್ಸ್" data-language-autonym="ಕನ್ನಡ" data-language-local-name="Kannada" class="interlanguage-link-target">ಕನ್ನಡ</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwest_Airlines" title="Southwest Airlines – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Southwest Airlines" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Lietuvių</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwest_Airlines" title="Southwest Airlines – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Southwest Airlines" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Magyar</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mr mw-list-item"><a href="https://mr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%89%E0%A4%A5%E0%A4%B5%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%B8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%9F_%E0%A4%8F%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%87%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B8" title="साउथवेस्ट एरलाइन्स – Marathi" lang="mr" hreflang="mr" data-title="साउथवेस्ट एरलाइन्स" data-language-autonym="मराठी" data-language-local-name="Marathi" class="interlanguage-link-target">मराठी</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AE%D8%B7%D9%88%D8%B7_%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%AB_%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%B3%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%87" title="خطوط ساوث ويست الجويه – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="خطوط ساوث ويست الجويه" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target">مصرى</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mzn mw-list-item"><a href="https://mzn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%86%D9%88%D8%A8%E2%80%8C%D8%BA%D8%B1%D8%A8%DB%8C_%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%B1%D9%84%D8%A7%DB%8C%D9%86%D8%B2" title="جنوب‌غربی ایرلاینز – Mazanderani" lang="mzn" hreflang="mzn" data-title="جنوب‌غربی ایرلاینز" data-language-autonym="مازِرونی" data-language-local-name="Mazanderani" class="interlanguage-link-target">مازِرونی</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwest_Airlines" title="Southwest Airlines – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="Southwest Airlines" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target">Bahasa Melayu</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwest_Airlines" title="Southwest Airlines – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Southwest Airlines" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target">Nederlands</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja badge-Q17437798 badge-goodarticle mw-list-item" title="good article badge"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B5%E3%82%A6%E3%82%B9%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A8%E3%82%B9%E3%83%88%E8%88%AA%E7%A9%BA" title="サウスウエスト航空 – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="サウスウエスト航空" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target">日本語</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwest_Airlines" title="Southwest Airlines – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Southwest Airlines" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target">Norsk bokmål</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwest_Airlines" title="Southwest Airlines – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Southwest Airlines" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Polski</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwest_Airlines" title="Southwest Airlines – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Southwest Airlines" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target">Português</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwest_Airlines" title="Southwest Airlines – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="Southwest Airlines" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Română</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwest_Airlines" title="Southwest Airlines – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Southwest Airlines" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Русский</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwest_Airlines" title="Southwest Airlines – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="Southwest Airlines" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple English" class="interlanguage-link-target">Simple English</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sk mw-list-item"><a href="https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwest_Airlines" title="Southwest Airlines – Slovak" lang="sk" hreflang="sk" data-title="Southwest Airlines" data-language-autonym="Slovenčina" data-language-local-name="Slovak" class="interlanguage-link-target">Slovenčina</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ckb mw-list-item"><a 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(2014–present), consisting of the name "Southwest" in blue letters followed by a heart in yellow, red and blue diagonal stripes" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/N_42570_Southwest_Airlines_Boeing_737_Max-8.jpg/220px-N_42570_Southwest_Airlines_Boeing_737_Max-8.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="103" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/N_42570_Southwest_Airlines_Boeing_737_Max-8.jpg/330px-N_42570_Southwest_Airlines_Boeing_737_Max-8.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/N_42570_Southwest_Airlines_Boeing_737_Max-8.jpg/440px-N_42570_Southwest_Airlines_Boeing_737_Max-8.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2837" data-file-height="1333" /></a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"> <table class="infobox-airline-codes"> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" style="padding-top: 0.5em; border-right: 1px solid white; text-align: center;"><a href="/wiki/Airline_codes#IATA_airline_designator" title="Airline codes">IATA</a> </th> <th scope="col" style="padding-top: 0.5em; border-right: 1px solid white; text-align: center;"><a href="/wiki/Airline_codes#ICAO_airline_designator" title="Airline codes">ICAO</a> </th> <th scope="col" style="padding-top: 0.5em; text-align: center;"><a href="/wiki/Aviation_call_signs#Commercial_airline" title="Aviation call signs">Call sign</a> </th></tr> <tr> <td class="nickname" style="padding-bottom: 0.5em; border-right: 1px solid white; text-align: center;">WN </td> <td class="nickname" style="padding-bottom: 0.5em; border-right: 1px solid white; text-align: center;">SWA </td> <td class="nickname" style="padding-bottom: 0.5em; text-align: center;">SOUTHWEST </td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Founded</th><td class="infobox-data">March 9, 1967; 57 years ago (1967-03-09) (as Air Southwest)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Commenced operations</th><td class="infobox-data">June 18, 1971; 53 years ago (1971-06-18) (as Southwest Airlines)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Air_operator%27s_certificate" title="Air operator's certificate">AOC #</a></th><td class="infobox-data">SWAA304A</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Operating bases</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist nowrap"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hartsfield%E2%80%93Jackson_Atlanta_International_Airport" title="Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport">Atlanta</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Baltimore/Washington_International_Thurgood_Marshall_Airport" class="mw-redirect" title="Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport">Baltimore</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Chicago_Midway_International_Airport" class="mw-redirect" title="Chicago Midway International Airport">Chicago–Midway</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Dallas_Love_Field" title="Dallas Love Field">Dallas–Love</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Denver_International_Airport" title="Denver International Airport">Denver</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/William_P._Hobby_Airport" title="William P. Hobby Airport">Houston–Hobby</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Harry_Reid_International_Airport" title="Harry Reid International Airport">Las Vegas</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_International_Airport" title="Los Angeles International Airport">Los Angeles</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Nashville_International_Airport" title="Nashville International Airport">Nashville</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Oakland_International_Airport" title="Oakland International Airport">Oakland</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Orlando_International_Airport" title="Orlando International Airport">Orlando</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Phoenix_Sky_Harbor_International_Airport" title="Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport">Phoenix–Sky Harbor</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/San_Diego_International_Airport" title="San Diego International Airport">San Diego</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Frequent-flyer_program" title="Frequent-flyer program">Frequent-flyer program</a></th><td class="infobox-data">Rapid Rewards</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Fleet size</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Southwest_Airlines_fleet" title="Southwest Airlines fleet">803</a><a href="#cite_note-financial_results-1">[1]</a>: 3 </td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Destinations</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/List_of_Southwest_Airlines_destinations" title="List of Southwest Airlines destinations">117</a><a href="#cite_note-financial_results-1">[1]</a>: 3 </td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Ticker_symbol" title="Ticker symbol">Traded as</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/New_York_Stock_Exchange" title="New York Stock Exchange">NYSE</a>: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nyse.com/quote/XNYS:LUV">LUV</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/DJTA" class="mw-redirect" title="DJTA">DJTA</a> component</li><li><a href="/wiki/S%26P_500" title="S&P 500">S&P 500</a> component</li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Headquarters</th><td class="infobox-data label"><a href="/wiki/Love_Field,_Dallas,_Texas" class="mw-redirect" title="Love Field, Dallas, Texas">Love Field</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dallas" title="Dallas">Dallas</a>, Texas, U.S.</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Key people</th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul style="margin-left:1em;text-indent:-1em;"><li><a href="/wiki/Bob_Jordan_(businessman)" title="Bob Jordan (businessman)">Bob Jordan</a> (<a href="/wiki/President_(corporate_title)" title="President (corporate title)">President</a> and <a href="/wiki/Chief_executive_officer" title="Chief executive officer">CEO</a>)</li><li><a href="/wiki/Rakesh_Gangwal" title="Rakesh Gangwal">Rakesh Gangwal</a> (<a href="/wiki/Chair_(officer)" title="Chair (officer)">Chair</a> of the Board)</li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Founders</th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist nowrap"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Herb_Kelleher" title="Herb Kelleher">Herb Kelleher</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Rollin_King" title="Rollin King">Rollin King</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Revenue" title="Revenue">Revenue</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /> <a href="/wiki/United_States_dollar" title="United States dollar">US$</a>27.5 billion (2024)<a href="#cite_note-financial_results-1">[1]</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Earnings_before_interest_and_taxes" title="Earnings before interest and taxes">Operating income</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /> US$321 million (2024)<a href="#cite_note-financial_results-1">[1]</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Net_income" title="Net income">Net income</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><img alt="Steady" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Steady2.svg/11px-Steady2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Steady2.svg/17px-Steady2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Steady2.svg/22px-Steady2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /> US$465 million (2024)<a href="#cite_note-financial_results-1">[1]</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Asset" title="Asset">Total assets</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><img alt="Decrease" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/11px-Decrease2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/17px-Decrease2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/22px-Decrease2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /> US$33.7 billion (2024)<a href="#cite_note-financial_results-1">[1]</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Equity_(finance)" title="Equity (finance)">Total equity</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><img alt="Decrease" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/11px-Decrease2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/17px-Decrease2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/22px-Decrease2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /> US$10.3 billion (2024)<a href="#cite_note-financial_results-1">[1]</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Employees</th><td class="infobox-data">72,450 (2024)<a href="#cite_note-financial_results-1">[1]</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://southwest.com">southwest.com</a></td></tr></tbody></table> Southwest Airlines Co. is a <a href="/wiki/Major_airlines_of_the_United_States" title="Major airlines of the United States">major airline in the United States</a> that operates on a <a href="/wiki/Low-cost_carrier" title="Low-cost carrier">low-cost carrier</a> model. It is headquartered in <a href="/wiki/Love_Field,_Dallas" title="Love Field, Dallas">Love Field, Dallas</a> neighborhood, in the <a href="/wiki/Dallas%E2%80%93Fort_Worth_metroplex" title="Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex">Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex</a>, and has scheduled service to 121 destinations in the United States and ten other countries.<a href="#cite_note-2">[2]</a> As of 2018, Southwest carried more domestic passengers than any other United States airline.<a href="#cite_note-3">[3]</a> It is currently the <a href="/wiki/Largest_airlines_in_the_world" title="Largest airlines in the world">fourth largest airline</a> in the world based on passengers flown.<a href="#cite_note-4">[4]</a> The airline was established on March 9, 1967,<a href="#cite_note-5">[5]</a> by <a href="/wiki/Herb_Kelleher" title="Herb Kelleher">Herb Kelleher</a> and <a href="/wiki/Rollin_King" title="Rollin King">Rollin King</a> as Air Southwest Co. and adopted its current name, Southwest Airlines Co., in 1971, when it began operating as an <a href="/wiki/Intrastate_airline" title="Intrastate airline">intrastate airline</a> wholly within the state of Texas, first flying between <a href="/wiki/Dallas" title="Dallas">Dallas</a>, <a href="/wiki/Houston" title="Houston">Houston</a>, and <a href="/wiki/San_Antonio" title="San Antonio">San Antonio</a>.<a href="#cite_note-briefhistory-6">[6]</a><a href="#cite_note-1966to1971-7">[7]</a> It began regional interstate service in 1979, expanding nationwide in the following decades. Southwest currently serves airports in 42 states and multiple <a href="/wiki/Central_America" title="Central America">Central American</a> destinations. Southwest's business model is distinct from that of other US airlines. It uses a <a href="/wiki/Airline_hub#Banking" title="Airline hub">rolling hub</a> and <a href="/wiki/Point-to-point_transit" title="Point-to-point transit">point-to-point</a> network and allows free <a href="/wiki/Checked_baggage" title="Checked baggage">checked baggage</a>. Its fleet exclusively consists of <a href="/wiki/Boeing_737" title="Boeing 737">Boeing 737</a> jets. The airline has nearly 66,100 employees and operates about 4,000 daily departures during peak travel season.<a href="#cite_note-factsheet-8">[8]</a><a href="#cite_note-9">[9]</a> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Southwest_Airlines&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/History_of_Southwest_Airlines" title="History of Southwest Airlines">History of Southwest Airlines</a></div> Southwest Airlines was founded in 1966 by <a href="/wiki/Herbert_Kelleher" class="mw-redirect" title="Herbert Kelleher">Herbert Kelleher</a> and <a href="/wiki/Rollin_King" title="Rollin King">Rollin King</a>, and incorporated as Air Southwest Co. in 1967. Three other airlines (Braniff, <a href="/wiki/Trans-Texas_Airways" class="mw-redirect" title="Trans-Texas Airways">Trans-Texas Airways</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Continental_Airlines" title="Continental Airlines">Continental Airlines</a>) 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 <a href="/wiki/Civil_Aeronautics_Board" title="Civil Aeronautics Board">Civil Aeronautics Board</a>. The lawsuits were resolved in 1970, and in 1971 the airline changed its name to Southwest Airlines and began operating regularly scheduled flights between the <a href="/wiki/Texas_Triangle" title="Texas Triangle">Texas Triangle</a> cities of Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio. In 1975, Southwest began flying to other cities in Texas, and in 1979, after passage of the <a href="/wiki/Airline_Deregulation_Act" title="Airline Deregulation Act">Airline Deregulation Act</a>, it began flying to adjacent states. It started service to the East and the Southeast in the 1990s,<a href="#cite_note-10">[10]</a> and <a href="/wiki/Denver_International_Airport" title="Denver International Airport">Denver</a> in 2006,<a href="#cite_note-densev-11">[11]</a> which is now its most popular destination. Southwest Airlines was profitable for 47 consecutive fiscal years, from 1973 through 2019.<a href="#cite_note-12">[12]</a> Southwest experienced a <a href="/wiki/2022_Southwest_Airlines_scheduling_crisis" title="2022 Southwest Airlines scheduling crisis">holiday meltdown in 2022</a> resulting in the cancellation of thousands of flights representing over 70% of its schedule following <a href="/wiki/Late_December_2022_North_American_winter_storm" class="mw-redirect" title="Late December 2022 North American winter storm">the late December 2022 North American winter storm</a>.<a href="#cite_note-13">[13]</a> As a result of the crisis, the airline reached a settlement with the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Transportation" title="United States Department of Transportation">United States Department of Transportation</a> including a record-setting $140 million fine , the largest fine ever imposed by the agency by a factor of roughly 30, and reported losses exceeding $1.1 billion stemming from the crisis.<a href="#cite_note-Reuters-fine-14">[14]</a><a href="#cite_note-NYT-fine-15">[15]</a><a href="#cite_note-BBC-fine-16">[16]</a><a href="#cite_note-:1-17">[17]</a><a href="#cite_note-:2-18">[18]</a> In May 2024, Southwest fares started showing on Google for the first time after long being excluded from the search engine's search results.<a href="#cite_note-19">[19]</a> Southwest lost $219 million in the fourth quarter of 2023<a href="#cite_note-20">[20]</a> and $231M in the first quarter of 2024; that April, it announced it would limit hiring and cease serving four airports.<a href="#cite_note-21">[21]</a> In June 2024, <a href="/wiki/Elliott_Investment_Management" title="Elliott Investment Management">Elliott Investment Management</a>, an <a href="/wiki/Activist_investor" class="mw-redirect" title="Activist investor">activist investment</a> fund, announced that it had bought $1.9 billion in Southwest stock and would seek to oust leadership at the carrier, arguing it had "failed to evolve" citing "leadership’s stubborn unwillingness to evolve the Company’s strategy."<a href="#cite_note-22">[22]</a> That September, in response to pressure from Elliott, Southwest announced that <a href="/wiki/Gary_C._Kelly" title="Gary C. Kelly">Gary C. Kelly</a> would retire in 2025 rather than seeking reelection as <a href="/wiki/Chair_(officer)" title="Chair (officer)">executive chairman</a>, and that several members of the corporate board would be replaced. <a href="/wiki/Bob_Jordan_(businessman)" title="Bob Jordan (businessman)">Bob Jordan</a> remained as <a href="/wiki/Chief_executive_officer" title="Chief executive officer">chief executive officer</a> (CEO) despite Elliot's efforts to oust him.<a href="#cite_note-shakeup-23">[23]</a><a href="#cite_note-nyt-ouster-24">[24]</a> In September 2024, Southwest Airlines announced its first airline partnership with <a href="/wiki/Icelandair" title="Icelandair">Icelandair</a>.<a href="#cite_note-25">[25]</a> In November 2024, five of Elliot's nominees were seated on Southwest’s board—the largest number of board seats ever gained by Elliott in a settlement with a U.S. company<a href="#cite_note-reuters-gangwal-26">[26]</a>—and Kelly retired early.<a href="#cite_note-27">[27]</a> Southwest simultaneously promoted industry veteran <a href="/wiki/Rakesh_Gangwal" title="Rakesh Gangwal">Rakesh Gangwal</a>, had been appointed to the board in July 2024, to chair of the board. Gangwal is co-founder of India's largest airline <a href="/wiki/IndiGo" title="IndiGo">IndiGo</a> and a former senior executive at <a href="/wiki/United_Airlines" title="United Airlines">United Airlines</a> and <a href="/wiki/US_Airways" title="US Airways">US Airways</a>.<a href="#cite_note-reuters-gangwal-26">[26]</a><a href="#cite_note-28">[28]</a> In January 2025, the US government sued Southwest for operating multiple chronically delayed flights and disrupting passengers’ travel.<a href="#cite_note-29">[29]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Destinations">Destinations</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Southwest_Airlines&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Destinations">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/List_of_Southwest_Airlines_destinations" title="List of Southwest Airlines destinations">List of Southwest Airlines destinations</a></div> As of January 2024<a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Southwest_Airlines&action=edit">[update]</a>, Southwest Airlines flies to over 100 destinations in 42 states, <a href="/wiki/Puerto_Rico" title="Puerto Rico">Puerto Rico</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mexico" title="Mexico">Mexico</a>, <a href="/wiki/Central_America" title="Central America">Central America</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Caribbean" title="Caribbean">Caribbean</a>.<a href="#cite_note-30">[30]</a> Southwest uses a <a href="/wiki/Point-to-point_transit" title="Point-to-point transit">point-to-point</a> system combined with a <a href="/wiki/Depeaking" class="mw-redirect" title="Depeaking">rolling-hub</a> model in its base cities, in contrast to the <a href="/wiki/Spoke-hub_distribution_paradigm" class="mw-redirect" title="Spoke-hub distribution paradigm">hub-and-spoke</a> system of other major airlines. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Fleet">Fleet</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Southwest_Airlines&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Fleet">edit</a>]</div> <div class="excerpt-block"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1066933788">.mw-parser-output .excerpt-hat .mw-editsection-like{font-style:normal}</style><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable dablink excerpt-hat selfref">This section is an excerpt from <a href="/wiki/Southwest_Airlines_fleet" title="Southwest Airlines fleet">Southwest Airlines fleet</a>.[<a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Southwest_Airlines_fleet&action=edit">edit</a>]</div><div class="excerpt"> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:N908WN_CVG_(29244931277).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/N908WN_CVG_%2829244931277%29.jpg/220px-N908WN_CVG_%2829244931277%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/N908WN_CVG_%2829244931277%29.jpg/330px-N908WN_CVG_%2829244931277%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/N908WN_CVG_%2829244931277%29.jpg/440px-N908WN_CVG_%2829244931277%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4288" data-file-height="2848" /></a><figcaption>Southwest Airlines is the world's largest operator of the <a href="/wiki/Boeing_737" title="Boeing 737">Boeing 737</a>.</figcaption></figure> As of February 2025<a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Southwest_Airlines&action=edit">[update]</a>, the Southwest Airlines operates a fleet of 800 <a href="/wiki/Boeing_737" title="Boeing 737">Boeing 737</a> aircraft, making it the fourth-largest commercial <a href="/wiki/List_of_airlines_by_fleet_size" class="mw-redirect" title="List of airlines by fleet size">airline fleet</a> in the world and the largest 737 operator. Additionally, as of October 2023 Southwest has 342 <a href="/wiki/Boeing_737_MAX#737_MAX_7" title="Boeing 737 MAX">737 MAX 7</a> aircraft on order. <a href="#cite_note-31">[31]</a> Since its inception, Southwest Airlines has largely operated Boeing 737 aircraft, serving as the launch customer of the <a href="/wiki/Boeing_737_Classic#737-300" title="Boeing 737 Classic">737-300</a>, <a href="/wiki/Boeing_737_Classic#737-500" title="Boeing 737 Classic">737-500</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Boeing_737_Next_Generation#737-700" title="Boeing 737 Next Generation">737-700</a>.<a href="#cite_note-32">[32]</a> In 2023, the airline received its 1,000th <a href="/wiki/Boeing_737" title="Boeing 737">Boeing 737</a>. The use of a single aircraft type across its fleet allows Southwest's pilots and flight attendants to operate any aircraft without restrictions and reduces training time and costs.<a href="#cite_note-Southwest_Airlines_fleet_MAX7_DMN_2021-33">[33]</a></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Passenger_experience">Passenger experience</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Southwest_Airlines&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Passenger experience">edit</a>]</div> Southwest Airlines solely offers economy class seating and does not have business class or first class cabins on its aircraft.<a href="#cite_note-34">[34]</a> The company permits two free-of-charge checked bags per passenger,<a href="#cite_note-35">[35]</a><a href="#cite_note-36">[36]</a> and passengers are permitted to change their flight up to 10 minutes prior to their flights without extra charge. In the event of a cancellation, passengers are refunded a travel credit in the amount spent on their ticket, and the credit may be used toward other Southwest Airlines or Southwest Vacations purchase. The credit does not expire.<a href="#cite_note-37">[37]</a> Southwest offers free inflight non-alcoholic beverages and offers alcoholic beverages for sale for $7-9 per beverage.<a href="#cite_note-38">[38]</a> Free alcoholic drinks are offered to passengers who are at least 21 on some holidays such as <a href="/wiki/Valentine%27s_Day" title="Valentine's Day">Valentine's Day</a> and <a href="/wiki/Halloween" title="Halloween">Halloween</a>. Complimentary snacks are also offered on all flights. Southwest has become known for colorful boarding announcements and crews who sometimes burst out in song.<a href="#cite_note-39">[39]</a><a href="#cite_note-40">[40]</a><a href="#cite_note-41">[41]</a><a href="#cite_note-42">[42]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Southwest_Boarding_Process.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/Southwest_Boarding_Process.jpg/170px-Southwest_Boarding_Process.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="269" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/Southwest_Boarding_Process.jpg/255px-Southwest_Boarding_Process.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/Southwest_Boarding_Process.jpg/340px-Southwest_Boarding_Process.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1826" data-file-height="2885" /></a><figcaption>Southwest's boarding process at an airport gate</figcaption></figure> Prior to 2007, Southwest boarded passengers by grouping the passengers into three groups, labeled A, B and C. Passengers would line up at their specified letter and board.<a href="#cite_note-abcnews-43">[43]</a> In 2007, Southwest modified its boarding procedure by introducing a number. Each passenger receives a letter (A, B, or C) and a number 1 through 60. Passengers lineup in numerical order within each letter group and choose any open seat on the aircraft.<a href="#cite_note-abcnews-43">[43]</a> A 2012 study on the television series <a href="/wiki/MythBusters" title="MythBusters">MythBusters</a>, found this to be the fastest method currently in use for passengers to board a plane; on average, it is 10 minutes faster than the standard method.<a href="#cite_note-44">[44]</a> The airline was also number-one on the 2020 Airline Quality Rating list.<a href="#cite_note-45">[45]</a> Southwest has a "customer of size" policy in which the cost of a second seat is refunded for any <a href="/wiki/Obesity" title="Obesity">plus-sized</a> travelers who take up more room than one seat.<a href="#cite_note-46">[46]</a><a href="#cite_note-47">[47]</a> On July 25, 2024, Southwest announced that it would soon be ending its long-standing open seating policy.<a href="#cite_note-48">[48]</a><a href="#cite_note-49">[49]</a> The airline will start assigning seats, introduce premium seating options with more legroom, and launch overnight flights beginning in 2026.<a href="#cite_note-50">[50]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="In-flight_entertainment">In-flight entertainment</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Southwest_Airlines&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: In-flight entertainment">edit</a>]</div> As of December 2024, <a href="/wiki/Wi-Fi" title="Wi-Fi">Wi-Fi</a> includes free streaming of live television, movies, music, in-app messaging (iMessage and WhatsApp), and real-time flight tracking.<a href="#cite_note-51">[51]</a> Full Internet access is available for an $8 fee for most passengers but is free for Business Select and A-List Preferred passengers. As of March 9, 2023, Southwest began upgrading Wi-Fi hardware on its existing aircraft equipped with Anuvu Wi-Fi and began rolling out Viasat Wi-Fi on all new deliveries.<a href="#cite_note-52">[52]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Rapid_Rewards">Rapid Rewards</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Southwest_Airlines&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Rapid Rewards">edit</a>]</div> Southwest first began to offer a <a href="/wiki/Frequent-flyer_program" title="Frequent-flyer program">frequent-flyer program</a> on June 18, 1987, calling it The Company Club. The program credited for trips flown regardless of distance.<a href="#cite_note-company_club-53">[53]</a> Southwest Airlines renamed its frequent-flyer program Rapid Rewards on April 25, 1996.<a href="#cite_note-rr_name-54">[54]</a> The original Rapid Rewards program offered one credit per one-way flight from an origin to a destination, including any stops or connections on Southwest Airlines. When 16 credits were accumulated in a 24-month period, Southwest awarded one free round-trip ticket that was valid for 12 months.<a href="#cite_note-rr_old_rules-55">[55]</a> On March 1, 2011, Rapid Rewards changed to a points system based on ticket cost. Members earn and redeem points based on a four-tier fare scale multiplier and the cost of the ticket. Changes also included no <a href="/wiki/Blackout_dates" class="mw-redirect" title="Blackout dates">blackout dates</a>, seat restrictions, or expiring credits. Since October 18, 2019, Rapid Rewards points do not expire as long as the member is alive.<a href="#cite_note-56">[56]</a> It also adds more options to use points.<a href="#cite_note-rr_pr-57">[57]</a><a href="#cite_note-rr_new-58">[58]</a><a href="#cite_note-59">[59]</a><a href="#cite_note-60">[60]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Corporate_affairs">Corporate affairs</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Southwest_Airlines&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Corporate affairs">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Business_trends">Business trends</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Southwest_Airlines&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Business trends">edit</a>]</div> The key trends for Southwest Airlines are (as of the financial year ending December 31):<a href="#cite_note-61">[61]</a> <table class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"> <tbody><tr style="line-height:133%"> <th> </th> <th>Net profit (millions of US$) </th> <th>Number of employees </th> <th>Number of passengers (in millions) </th> <th>Passenger load factor (%) </th> <th>Average passenger fare (US$) </th> <th>Fleet size </th> <th><abbr title="References">Ref.</abbr> </th></tr> <tr> <th>2015 </th> <td>2,181 </td> <td>49,583 </td> <td>118 </td> <td>83.6 </td> <td>154 </td> <td>704 </td> <td><a href="#cite_note-AR2018-62">[62]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th>2016 </th> <td>2,183 </td> <td>53,536 </td> <td>124 </td> <td>84.0 </td> <td>152 </td> <td>723 </td> <td><a href="#cite_note-AR2018-62">[62]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th>2017 </th> <td>3,357 </td> <td>56,110 </td> <td>130 </td> <td>83.9 </td> <td>151 </td> <td>706 </td> <td><a href="#cite_note-AR2018-62">[62]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th>2018 </th> <td>2,465 </td> <td>58,803 </td> <td>134 </td> <td>83.4 </td> <td>151 </td> <td>750 </td> <td><a href="#cite_note-AR2018-62">[62]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th>2019 </th> <td>2,300 </td> <td>60,767 </td> <td>134 </td> <td>83.5 </td> <td>154 </td> <td>747 </td> <td><a href="#cite_note-AR2022-63">[63]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th>2020 </th> <td><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239334494">@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output div:not(.notheme)>.tmp-color,html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output p>.tmp-color,html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output table:not(.notheme) .tmp-color{color:inherit!important}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output div:not(.notheme)>.tmp-color,html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output p>.tmp-color,html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output table:not(.notheme) .tmp-color{color:inherit!important}}</style>−3,074− </td> <td>56,537 </td> <td>054 </td> <td>52.4 </td> <td>141 </td> <td>718 </td> <td><a href="#cite_note-64">[64]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th>2021 </th> <td>0977 </td> <td>55,093 </td> <td>099 </td> <td>78.5 </td> <td>141 </td> <td>728 </td> <td><a href="#cite_note-AR2022-63">[63]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th>2022 </th> <td>0539 </td> <td>66,656 </td> <td>126 </td> <td>83.4 </td> <td>169 </td> <td>770 </td> <td><a href="#cite_note-AR2022-63">[63]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th>2023 </th> <td>0465 </td> <td>74,806 </td> <td>137 </td> <td>80.0 </td> <td>172 </td> <td>817 </td> <td><a href="#cite_note-65">[65]</a> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Headquarters">Headquarters</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Southwest_Airlines&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Headquarters">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Southwest_airlines_hq_from_east_2009-06-22.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/Southwest_airlines_hq_from_east_2009-06-22.jpg/240px-Southwest_airlines_hq_from_east_2009-06-22.jpg" decoding="async" width="240" height="176" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/Southwest_airlines_hq_from_east_2009-06-22.jpg/360px-Southwest_airlines_hq_from_east_2009-06-22.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/Southwest_airlines_hq_from_east_2009-06-22.jpg/480px-Southwest_airlines_hq_from_east_2009-06-22.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1554" data-file-height="1140" /></a><figcaption>Southwest Airlines' headquarters at <a href="/wiki/Dallas_Love_Field" title="Dallas Love Field">Dallas Love Field</a> in <a href="/wiki/Dallas" title="Dallas">Dallas</a></figcaption></figure> The Southwest Airlines headquarters are located on the grounds of <a href="/wiki/Dallas_Love_Field" title="Dallas Love Field">Dallas Love Field</a> in <a href="/wiki/Dallas" title="Dallas">Dallas</a>.<a href="#cite_note-factsheet-8">[8]</a><a href="#cite_note-66">[66]</a> Chris Sloan of Airways magazine stated they are "as much a living, breathing museum and showcase for the 'culture that LUV built' as they are corporate offices."<a href="#cite_note-67">[67]</a> On September 17, 2012, Southwest broke ground on a new Training and Operational Support building,<a href="#cite_note-68">[68]</a> across the street from its current headquarters building. The property includes a two-story, 100,000-square-foot Network Operations Control building that can withstand an EF3 tornado. It also includes a four-story, 392,000-square-foot office, and training facility with two levels devoted to each function. The new facilities house 24-hour coordination and maintenance operations, customer support and services, and training. The project was completed in late 2013, with occupancy beginning in 2014. On June 2, 2016, Southwest broke ground on its new office and training facility known as Wings. The newest addition to the corporate campus is composed of a 420,000-square-foot, six-story office building, and a 380,000-square-foot adjoining structure called the Leadership Education and Aircrew Development (LEAD) Center that serves as the new pilot training facility. The LEAD Center has the capacity to house and support 18 flight simulators. It is designed to be expanded to accommodate up to 26 simulator bays. The building opened on April 3, 2018.<a href="#cite_note-69">[69]</a> On August 16, 2019, Southwest announced an expansion of the LEAD Center to accommodate eight additional simulators for future operational and training demands.<a href="#cite_note-70">[70]</a> On January 2, 2020, it was announced that Southwest would be purchasing an additional 3 acres (1.2 ha) of land adjacent to its Wings and LEAD facilities.<a href="#cite_note-71">[71]</a> No additional details were disclosed. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Employment">Employment</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Southwest_Airlines&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Employment">edit</a>]</div> As of June 30, 2022<a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Southwest_Airlines&action=edit">[update]</a>, Southwest Airlines had 62,333 active full-time equivalent employees.<a href="#cite_note-72">[72]</a> According to The Washington Post, it uses the hiring motto of seeking people that have a "Servant's Heart, Warrior Spirit, Fun-LUVing Attitude".<a href="#cite_note-73">[73]</a> It also uses the internal practice of ranking "employees first, customers second".<a href="#cite_note-74">[74]</a> Collective bargaining Southwest Airlines employees is represented by the Southwest Airlines Pilot Association union.<a href="#cite_note-75">[75]</a> <a href="/wiki/Bob_Jordan_(businessman)" title="Bob Jordan (businessman)">Bob Jordan</a>, formerly executive vice president of corporate services, became Southwest's sixth CEO on February 1, 2022, replacing <a href="/wiki/Gary_C._Kelly" title="Gary C. Kelly">Gary C. Kelly</a>. Kelly continues as chairman of Southwest Airlines. Kelly replaced former CEO Jim Parker on July 15, 2004, and assumed the title of <a href="/wiki/President_(corporate_title)" title="President (corporate title)">president</a> on July 15, 2008, replacing former president <a href="/wiki/Colleen_Barrett" title="Colleen Barrett">Colleen Barrett</a>. In July 2008, Herb Kelleher resigned from his position as chairman. Barrett left her post on the board of directors and as a corporate secretary in May 2008 and as president in July 2008. Kelleher was president and CEO of Southwest from September 1981 to June 2001.<a href="#cite_note-76">[76]</a> On June 23, 2021, Southwest announced that chairman and CEO Gary Kelly would transition roles in early 2022, becoming the carrier's executive chairman with the desire to serve in that role through at least 2026 at the discretion of the board of directors. Jordan also joined the board then.<a href="#cite_note-77">[77]</a> On January 10, 2017, Southwest announced changes to the company's executive leadership ranks, with Thomas M. Nealon named as president and Michael G. Van de Ven as the airline's chief operating officer.<a href="#cite_note-78">[78]</a> On September 14, 2021, Southwest announced Nealon had decided to retire from his duties as president effective immediately, but would continue to serve the company as a strategic advisor. Chief Operating Officer Mike Van de Ven was named as the company's president the same day, and remains COO.<a href="#cite_note-79">[79]</a> In September 2024, in response to pressure from Elliott Investment Management, Kelly announced that he would not seek reelection as executive chairman in 2025. Jordan is expected to remain as CEO.<a href="#cite_note-nyt-ouster-24">[24]</a><a href="#cite_note-shakeup-23">[23]</a> About 83% of Southwest employees are <a href="/wiki/Labor_union" class="mw-redirect" title="Labor union">members of a union</a>.<a href="#cite_note-80">[80]</a> The Southwest Airline Pilots' Association, a union not affiliated with the <a href="/wiki/Air_Line_Pilots_Association" class="mw-redirect" title="Air Line Pilots Association">Air Line Pilots Association</a>, represents the airline's pilots.<a href="#cite_note-81">[81]</a> The aircraft maintenance technicians are represented by the <a href="/wiki/AMFA" class="mw-redirect" title="AMFA">Aircraft Mechanics Fraternal Association</a>.<a href="#cite_note-82">[82]</a> Customer service agents and reservation agents are represented by the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers Union. Flight dispatchers, flight attendants, ramp agents, and operations agents are represented by the Transport Workers Union. The company has appeared on various "best places to work" list, with its employee culture mentioned by Travel and Leisure, <a href="/wiki/CNBC" title="CNBC">CNBC</a>, and Forbes.<a href="#cite_note-83">[83]</a><a href="#cite_note-84">[84]</a> The company has also been named to Fortune magazine's "Most Admired Companies" list, reaching number 14 in 2021.<a href="#cite_note-85">[85]</a> Southwest has never furloughed an employee.<a href="#cite_note-warn2020-86">[86]</a> As a result of the <a href="/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic" title="COVID-19 pandemic">COVID-19 pandemic</a>, the company launched voluntary separation and extended time-off programs in 2020, and around 16,900 employees volunteered to take an <a href="/wiki/Early_retirement" class="mw-redirect" title="Early retirement">early retirement</a> or <a href="/wiki/Leave_of_absence" title="Leave of absence">long-term leave</a>.<a href="#cite_note-87">[87]</a> Roughly 24% were pilots and 33% were flight attendants.<a href="#cite_note-88">[88]</a> In late 2020, the airline issued some <a href="/wiki/WARN_Act_notice" class="mw-redirect" title="WARN Act notice">WARN Act notices</a> and announced incipient pay cuts for many employees in response to pandemic impacts, but these measures were rescinded after the <a href="/wiki/Consolidated_Appropriations_Act,_2021" title="Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021">Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021</a> was enacted on December 27, 2020, providing additional financial aid to US airlines.<a href="#cite_note-89">[89]</a> The latest five year labor contract for Southwest Airlines pilots was approved in January 2024.<a href="#cite_note-90">[90]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Impact_on_carriers">Impact on carriers</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Southwest_Airlines&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Impact on carriers">edit</a>]</div> Southwest and its business model have had an influence on other low-cost carriers (LCC's). The competitive strategy combines a high level of employee and aircraft productivity with low unit costs by reducing aircraft turnaround time, particularly at the gate.<a href="#cite_note-upinair-91">[91]</a> Europe's <a href="/wiki/EasyJet" title="EasyJet">EasyJet</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ryanair" title="Ryanair">Ryanair</a> are two of the best-known airlines to follow Southwest's business strategy in that continent. Other airlines with a business model based on Southwest's system include Canada's <a href="/wiki/WestJet" title="WestJet">WestJet</a>, <a href="/wiki/Malaysia" title="Malaysia">Malaysia</a>'s <a href="/wiki/AirAsia" title="AirAsia">AirAsia</a> (the first and biggest LCC in <a href="/wiki/Asia" title="Asia">Asia</a>), India's <a href="/wiki/IndiGo" title="IndiGo">IndiGo</a>, Australia's <a href="/wiki/Jetstar_Airways" class="mw-redirect" title="Jetstar Airways">Jetstar</a>, a subsidiary of <a href="/wiki/Qantas" title="Qantas">Qantas</a> (although Jetstar now operates three aircraft types), <a href="/wiki/Philippines" title="Philippines">Philippines</a>' <a href="/wiki/Cebu_Pacific" title="Cebu Pacific">Cebu Pacific</a>, <a href="/wiki/Thailand" title="Thailand">Thailand</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Nok_Air" title="Nok Air">Nok Air</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mexico" title="Mexico">Mexico</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Volaris" title="Volaris">Volaris</a>, <a href="/wiki/Indonesia" title="Indonesia">Indonesia</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Lion_Air" title="Lion Air">Lion Air</a> and <a href="/wiki/Turkey" title="Turkey">Turkey</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Pegasus_Airlines" title="Pegasus Airlines">Pegasus Airlines</a>.<a href="#cite_note-upinair-91">[91]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Lobbying_against_high-speed_rail">Lobbying against high-speed rail</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Southwest_Airlines&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Lobbying against high-speed rail">edit</a>]</div> Southwest Airlines has a history of lobbying against <a href="/wiki/High-speed_rail" title="High-speed rail">high-speed rail</a>, which it sees as a competitor for short-distance commuter flights. In the early 1990s, Southwest lobbied US Congress and the Texas Legislature to oppose a high-speed rail system between <a href="/wiki/Dallas" title="Dallas">Dallas</a>, <a href="/wiki/San_Antonio" title="San Antonio">San Antonio</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Houston" title="Houston">Houston</a>, and filed three lawsuits against the initiative.<a href="#cite_note-Perl_1997-92">[92]</a><a href="#cite_note-Batheja_2014-93">[93]</a><a href="#cite_note-94">[94]</a><a href="#cite_note-Powell_1995-95">[95]</a> In 1991, Southwest told Texas authorities, "Rail has a romantic appeal, but this case cannot be decided on the basis of nostalgia or even a desire to emulate the rail service of France and Germany. The American reality is that high-speed rail will be viable in <a href="/wiki/Texas" title="Texas">Texas</a> only by destroying the convenient and inexpensive transportation service the airlines now provide, and only by absorbing huge public subsidies."<a href="#cite_note-Batheja_2014-93">[93]</a> In 1994, the high-speed rail initiative was cancelled.<a href="#cite_note-Perl_1997-92">[92]</a> While several reasons led to the initiative's demise, most commentators attribute a key role to Southwest Airlines' aggressive campaign against it.<a href="#cite_note-Powell_1995-95">[95]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Advertising">Advertising</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Southwest_Airlines&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Advertising">edit</a>]</div> The company has always employed humor in its advertising. Former slogans include "Love Is Still Our Field", "Just Plane Smart", "The Somebody Else Up There Who Loves You", "You're Now Free to Move About the Country", "THE Low Fare Airline", "Grab your bag, It's On!", and "Welcome Aboard". The airline's slogan (as of 2022) is "Low fares. Nothing to hide. That's TransFarency!"<a href="#cite_note-96">[96]</a> In March 1992, shortly after Southwest started using the "Just Plane Smart" motto, Stevens Aviation, which had been using "Plane Smart" for its motto, advised Southwest that it was infringing on its trademark.<a href="#cite_note-97">[97]</a><a href="#cite_note-98">[98]</a> Instead of a lawsuit, the CEOs for both companies staged an arm-wrestling match. Held at the now-demolished <a href="/wiki/Dallas_Sportatorium" title="Dallas Sportatorium">Dallas Sportatorium</a> and set for two out of three rounds, the loser of each round was to pay $5,000 to the charity of his choice, with the winner gaining the use of the trademarked phrase. A promotional video was created showing the CEOs "training" for the bout (with CEO Herb Kelleher being helped up during a sit-up where a cigarette and glass of <a href="/wiki/Wild_Turkey_(bourbon)" title="Wild Turkey (bourbon)">Wild Turkey</a> 101 whiskey was waiting) and distributed among the employees and also as a video press release along with the video of the match itself. Herb Kelleher lost the match for Southwest, with Stevens Aviation winning the rights to the phrase. Kurt Herwald, CEO of Stevens Aviation, immediately granted the use of "Just Plane Smart" to Southwest Airlines. The net result was both companies having use of the trademark.<a href="#cite_note-99">[99]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Accidents_and_incidents">Accidents and incidents</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Southwest_Airlines&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Accidents and incidents">edit</a>]</div> Southwest has had 11 accidents, including three aircraft <a href="/wiki/Hull_loss" title="Hull loss">hull losses</a> and four deaths: one accidental passenger death in flight, two non-passenger deaths on the ground, and one passenger death from injuries he sustained when subdued by other passengers while attempting to break into the cockpit of an aircraft. The airline is considered among the safest in the world. No passenger has died as a result of a crash.<a href="#cite_note-In_depth:_World-100">[100]</a> <table class="wikitable sortable"> <caption>Southwest Airlines incidents and accidents, by date </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" class="unsortable">Flight </th> <th scope="col">Date </th> <th scope="col">Aircraft </th> <th scope="col">Location </th> <th scope="col" class="unsortable">Description </th> <th scope="col">Casualties </th></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Southwest_Airlines_Flight_1455" title="Southwest Airlines Flight 1455">1455</a> </th> <td>March 5, 2000 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Boeing_737_Classic" title="Boeing 737 Classic">Boeing 737-300</a> N668SW </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Burbank,_California" title="Burbank, California">Burbank, California</a> </td> <td>The aircraft <a href="/wiki/Runway_excursion" title="Runway excursion">overran the runway</a> upon landing at <a href="/wiki/Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena_Airport" class="mw-redirect" title="Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport">Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport</a>, injuring 44. The accident resulted in the dismissal of the captain. The aircraft was damaged beyond repair. </td> <td>Two serious injuries, forty-two minor injuries </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Southwest_Airlines_Flight_1763" title="Southwest Airlines Flight 1763">1763</a> </th> <td>August 11, 2000 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Boeing_737_Next_Generation" title="Boeing 737 Next Generation">Boeing 737-700</a> N798SW </td> <td>In flight </td> <td>The aircraft was flying from <a href="/wiki/Las_Vegas,_Nevada" class="mw-redirect" title="Las Vegas, Nevada">Las Vegas, Nevada</a>, to <a href="/wiki/Salt_Lake_City,_Utah" class="mw-redirect" title="Salt Lake City, Utah">Salt Lake City, Utah</a> when 19-year-old Jonathan Burton attempted to storm the cockpit in an apparent case of <a href="/wiki/Air_rage" title="Air rage">air rage</a>. He was restrained by six to eight other passengers. In the scuffle, Burton died of <a href="/wiki/Asphyxiation" class="mw-redirect" title="Asphyxiation">asphyxiation</a>. </td> <td>One death, one minor injury </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Southwest_Airlines_Flight_1248" title="Southwest Airlines Flight 1248">1248</a> </th> <td>December 8, 2005 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Boeing_737_Next_Generation" title="Boeing 737 Next Generation">Boeing 737-700</a> N471WN </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Chicago" title="Chicago">Chicago, Illinois</a> </td> <td>The aircraft overran the runway during landing at <a href="/wiki/Chicago_Midway_Airport" class="mw-redirect" title="Chicago Midway Airport">Chicago Midway International Airport</a> in heavy snow and slid into a nearby street, striking several cars and killing a six-year-old boy inside one of them. Injuries to several passengers and other people on the ground. </td> <td>One death, nine seriously injured (on ground); three minor injuries (on board) </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Southwest_Airlines_Flight_2294" title="Southwest Airlines Flight 2294">2294</a> </th> <td>July 13, 2009 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Boeing_737_Classic" title="Boeing 737 Classic">Boeing 737-300</a> N387SW </td> <td>In flight </td> <td>The flight from <a href="/wiki/Nashville_International_Airport" title="Nashville International Airport">Nashville International Airport</a> to <a href="/wiki/Baltimore-Washington_International_Airport" class="mw-redirect" title="Baltimore-Washington International Airport">Baltimore-Washington International Airport</a> was forced to divert to <a href="/wiki/Yeager_Airport" title="Yeager Airport">Yeager Airport</a> in <a href="/wiki/Charleston,_West_Virginia" title="Charleston, West Virginia">Charleston, West Virginia</a> after a hole formed on the top of the aircraft's fuselage near the tail, resulting in depressurization of the cabin and deployment of the oxygen masks. The aircraft landed safely and was repaired. </td> <td>None </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Southwest_Airlines_Flight_812" title="Southwest Airlines Flight 812">812</a> </th> <td>April 1, 2011 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Boeing_737_Classic" title="Boeing 737 Classic">Boeing 737-300</a> N632SW </td> <td>In flight </td> <td>The crew of the flight from <a href="/wiki/Phoenix_Sky_Harbor_International_Airport" title="Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport">Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport</a> to <a href="/wiki/Sacramento_International_Airport" title="Sacramento International Airport">Sacramento International Airport</a> diverted to <a href="/wiki/Yuma_International_Airport" title="Yuma International Airport">Yuma International Airport</a> after a hole appeared in the top of the aircraft fuselage. The aircraft landed safely. </td> <td>Two minor injuries </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Southwest_Airlines_Flight_345" title="Southwest Airlines Flight 345">345</a> </th> <td>July 22, 2013 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Boeing_737_Next_Generation" title="Boeing 737 Next Generation">Boeing 737-700</a> N753SW </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Queens" title="Queens">Queens, New York</a> </td> <td>The flight from <a href="/wiki/Nashville_International_Airport" title="Nashville International Airport">Nashville International Airport</a> was severely damaged in a <a href="/wiki/Hard_landing" title="Hard landing">hard landing</a> at New York's <a href="/wiki/LaGuardia_Airport" title="LaGuardia Airport">LaGuardia Airport</a>. The nose landing gear collapsed with sufficient force to penetrate a nearby electronics bay; the aircraft then slid off the runway. The captain was fired and the aircraft was ultimately scrapped. </td> <td>Ten minor injuries </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">149 </th> <td>August 4, 2016 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Boeing_737_Classic" title="Boeing 737 Classic">Boeing 737-300</a> N368SW<a href="#cite_note-101">[101]</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Anne_Arundel_County,_Maryland" title="Anne Arundel County, Maryland">Anne Arundel County, Maryland</a> </td> <td>During pushback at <a href="/wiki/Baltimore/Washington_International_Thurgood_Marshall_Airport" class="mw-redirect" title="Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport">Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport</a>, the aircraft suffered a failure of the nose landing gear because of the tug operators speed during pushback. The nose landing gear collapsed in a forward direction, causing severe damage to the gear structure, nose gear wheel and crushing the forward bulkhead. The plane was substantially damaged and written off. </td> <td>None </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Southwest_Airlines_Flight_3472" title="Southwest Airlines Flight 3472">3472</a> </th> <td>August 27, 2016 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Boeing_737_Next_Generation" title="Boeing 737 Next Generation">Boeing 737-700</a> N766SW </td> <td>In flight </td> <td>The flight from <a href="/wiki/Louis_Armstrong_New_Orleans_International_Airport" title="Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport">Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport</a> to <a href="/wiki/Orlando_International_Airport" title="Orlando International Airport">Orlando International Airport</a> suffered an <a href="/wiki/Uncontained_engine_failure" class="mw-redirect" title="Uncontained engine failure">uncontained engine failure</a>, damaging the engine nacelle and causing a gash in the fuselage. The aircraft diverted and landed without further incident at <a href="/wiki/Pensacola_International_Airport" title="Pensacola International Airport">Pensacola International Airport</a>. </td> <td>None </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Southwest_Airlines_Flight_1380" title="Southwest Airlines Flight 1380">1380</a> </th> <td>April 17, 2018 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Boeing_737_Next_Generation" title="Boeing 737 Next Generation">Boeing 737-700</a> N772SW </td> <td>In flight </td> <td>The flight from <a href="/wiki/LaGuardia_Airport" title="LaGuardia Airport">New York-LaGuardia</a> to <a href="/wiki/Dallas_Love_Field" title="Dallas Love Field">Dallas</a> made an emergency landing at <a href="/wiki/Philadelphia_International_Airport" title="Philadelphia International Airport">Philadelphia International Airport</a> after debris from an uncontained engine failure smashed a passenger window. The resulting depressurization pushed a passenger partially out a window, causing critical injuries that led to her death. </td> <td>One death, eight minor injuries </td></tr> <tr> <th>728 </th> <td>December 6, 2018 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Boeing_737_Next_Generation" title="Boeing 737 Next Generation">Boeing 737-700</a> N752SW </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Burbank,_California" title="Burbank, California">Burbank, California</a> </td> <td>The flight from <a href="/wiki/Oakland_International_Airport" title="Oakland International Airport">Oakland International Airport</a> overran the runway upon landing at Burbank, but the aircraft was stopped by an <a href="/wiki/Engineered_materials_arrestor_system" title="Engineered materials arrestor system">engineered materials arrestor system</a> (EMAS) that had been implemented as a result of the Flight 1455 accident.<a href="#cite_note-102">[102]</a> </td> <td>None<a href="#cite_note-103">[103]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">1392 </th> <td>May 7, 2020 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Boeing_737_Next_Generation" title="Boeing 737 Next Generation">Boeing 737-700</a> N401WN<a href="#cite_note-wn1392-104">[104]</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Austin,_Texas" title="Austin, Texas">Austin, Texas</a> </td> <td>Shortly after landing at <a href="/wiki/Austin%E2%80%93Bergstrom_International_Airport" title="Austin–Bergstrom International Airport">Austin–Bergstrom International Airport</a>, a pilot reported having seen someone on Runway 17R; subsequent investigation by airport operations found the body of a man on the runway, having seemingly been struck by the aircraft during or shortly after it touched down.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] </td> <td>One death (on ground) </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="“row”">2494 </th> <td>November 15, 2024 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Boeing_737_Next_Generation" title="Boeing 737 Next Generation">Boeing 737-800</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Dallas,_Texas" class="mw-redirect" title="Dallas, Texas">Dallas, Texas</a> </td> <td>Struck near the cockpit by a bullet while preparing to take off from Love Field. No injuries were reported, the aircraft safely returned to the gate, and the passengers transferred to another aircraft. The incident aircraft was taken out of service. <a href="/wiki/Dallas_Police_Department" title="Dallas Police Department">Dallas police</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dallas_Fire-Rescue_Department" title="Dallas Fire-Rescue Department">Dallas Fire-Rescue</a>, and the FAA initiated investigations.<a href="#cite_note-105">[105]</a><a href="#cite_note-106">[106]</a><a href="#cite_note-107">[107]</a> </td> <td>None </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Controversies_and_passenger_incidents">Controversies and passenger incidents</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Southwest_Airlines&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Controversies and passenger incidents">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Access_Now_v._Southwest_Airlines" class="mw-redirect" title="Access Now v. Southwest Airlines">Access Now v. Southwest Airlines</a>, <a href="/wiki/Flying_while_Muslim#Southwest_Airlines" title="Flying while Muslim">Flying while Muslim § Southwest Airlines</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Boeing_737_MAX_groundings" title="Boeing 737 MAX groundings">Boeing 737 MAX groundings</a></div> On June 22, 2011, a March 25 recording was released to the press of an apparently inadvertent in-flight radio transmission of Southwest captain James Taylor conversing with his first officer. The conversation was peppered with obscenities directed at gay, overweight, and older flight attendants. According to Southwest, the pilot was reprimanded and temporarily <a href="/wiki/Suspended_without_pay" class="mw-redirect" title="Suspended without pay">suspended without pay</a> and received <a href="/wiki/Diversity_education" class="mw-redirect" title="Diversity education">diversity education</a> before being reinstated.<a href="#cite_note-108">[108]</a><a href="#cite_note-109">[109]</a><a href="#cite_note-110">[110]</a> On September 26, 2017, a woman was removed from a Southwest flight after claiming to have a life-threatening allergy to dogs, two of which were present on the aircraft, including a <a href="/wiki/Service_animal" title="Service animal">service animal</a>. Southwest employees requested that she provide documentation of her condition and staff asked her to exit the aircraft multiple times. Police ultimately had to escort her away.<a href="#cite_note-111">[111]</a><a href="#cite_note-112">[112]</a> On December 29, 2017, a family was removed from a flight from <a href="/wiki/Chicago_Midway_Airport" class="mw-redirect" title="Chicago Midway Airport">Chicago Midway Airport</a> because of an unconfirmed <a href="/wiki/Head_lice" class="mw-redirect" title="Head lice">head lice</a> accusation. The family did not have lice and was re-accommodated on a flight two days later.<a href="#cite_note-113">[113]</a> In October 2019, a Southwest flight attendant filed a lawsuit against the airline, claiming that two pilots had livestreamed footage from a camera hidden in the plane's toilet to an <a href="/wiki/IPad" title="IPad">iPad</a>, and that one of the pilots said that such cameras were a "top-secret security measure" installed in all of the airline's <a href="/wiki/Boeing_737_Next_Generation#737-800" title="Boeing 737 Next Generation">737-800</a> aircraft.<a href="#cite_note-114">[114]</a> Southwest and the pilot union stated that the film was a hoax and a "poor attempt at humor" by one of the pilots, who had previously recorded himself on a different aircraft, fully clothed.<a href="#cite_note-115">[115]</a> In February 2020, a report conducted by the DOT inspector general found that Southwest was flying airplanes with safety concerns and that the <a href="/wiki/Federal_Aviation_Administration" title="Federal Aviation Administration">Federal Aviation Administration</a> was failing to properly oversee the airline.<a href="#cite_note-116">[116]</a> In 2020, a captain of a Southwest flight watched pornography on a laptop computer with his clothes removed while his female first officer continued her duties. The captain retired before the incident was reported, but he was subsequently prosecuted for intentionally committing a lewd, indecent or obscene act in a public place, and the airline terminated his retirement benefits.<a href="#cite_note-117">[117]</a><a href="#cite_note-118">[118]</a> On May 23, 2021, a female passenger aboard a Southwest flight repeatedly punched a female flight attendant in the face after landing at <a href="/wiki/San_Diego_International_Airport" title="San Diego International Airport">San Diego International Airport</a>, causing the attendant to lose two teeth. The passenger was subsequently charged with causing serious bodily injury.<a href="#cite_note-119">[119]</a> Citing four <a href="/wiki/Whistleblower" class="mw-redirect" title="Whistleblower">whistleblowers</a>, federal investigators with the <a href="/wiki/US_Office_of_Special_Counsel" class="mw-redirect" title="US Office of Special Counsel">US Office of Special Counsel</a> released a report on July 27, 2022, that follows up on the 2020 DOT inspector general's report. The 2022 report claims that Southwest stonewalled <a href="/wiki/Federal_Aviation_Administration" title="Federal Aviation Administration">Federal Aviation Administration</a> (FAA) investigations into maintenance and piloting safety lapses, and criticized the FAA for failing to adequately oversee the airline, stating that senior FAA staff "mismanaged and interfered" with investigations "in the face of SWA's intimidation tactics". The report accuses Southwest of misusing the FAA's <a href="/wiki/Aviation_Safety_Action_Program" title="Aviation Safety Action Program">Aviation Safety Action Program</a> (ASAP) to hide pilot errors, while accusing the FAA of failing to adequately oversee Southwest's mechanics, and of failing to adequately vet maintenance records provided by the airline for forty-nine <a href="/wiki/Boeing_737" title="Boeing 737">737 aircraft</a> purchased from foreign carriers whose documentation practices did not meet FAA standards.<a href="#cite_note-120">[120]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="December_2022_holiday_meltdown">December 2022 holiday meltdown</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Southwest_Airlines&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: December 2022 holiday meltdown">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/2022_Southwest_Airlines_scheduling_crisis" title="2022 Southwest Airlines scheduling crisis">2022 Southwest Airlines scheduling crisis</a></div> The airline experienced severe delays and thousands of flight cancellations starting on December 21, 2022, and continuing through the Christmas holiday.<a href="#cite_note-Reuters-fine-14">[14]</a><a href="#cite_note-NYT-fine-15">[15]</a><a href="#cite_note-BBC-fine-16">[16]</a> While many cancellations were due to bad weather from the severe <a href="/wiki/Late_December_2022_North_American_winter_storm" class="mw-redirect" title="Late December 2022 North American winter storm">late December winter storm</a> across much of the United States, industry experts and SWAPA also blamed inadequate staffing and the airline's "outdated" employee scheduling system, citing reports of pilots waiting on hold on the telephone for up to eight hours awaiting work assignments.<a href="#cite_note-121">[121]</a><a href="#cite_note-reset-122">[122]</a> On December 26, the airline initiated a massive system "reset", preemptively canceling thousands of flights and halting ticket sales over concerns that travelers might buy tickets for flights that were subsequently canceled.<a href="#cite_note-reset-122">[122]</a> Federal officials criticized the airline and <a href="/wiki/US_Department_of_Transportation" class="mw-redirect" title="US Department of Transportation">US Department of Transportation</a> (USDOT) Secretary <a href="/wiki/Pete_Buttigieg" title="Pete Buttigieg">Pete Buttigieg</a> announced a formal investigation.<a href="#cite_note-123">[123]</a> Some experts attributed the crisis to the lack of scheduling flexibility inherent in the airline's point-to-point operations model.<a href="#cite_note-124">[124]</a> <a href="/wiki/Paul_Krugman" title="Paul Krugman">Paul Krugman</a> in <a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a> suggested the turmoil was not as much about corporate greed as some might expect and noted that despite an increasingly digitalized world, "there's a lot of physical action, and real-world labor, going on behind the scenes."<a href="#cite_note-125">[125]</a> Another writer on the paper's opinion pages, <a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_Spiers" title="Elizabeth Spiers">Elizabeth Spiers</a>, said this was an example of the airlines knowing they are offering passengers a poor deal but that many people have little choice given the alternatives.<a href="#cite_note-126">[126]</a> In December 2023, the airline reached a settlement and received a record-setting $140 million fine from the USDOT, the largest fine ever imposed by the agency by a factor of roughly 30, and has reported losses exceeding $1.1 billion stemming from the crisis.<a href="#cite_note-Reuters-fine-14">[14]</a><a href="#cite_note-NYT-fine-15">[15]</a><a href="#cite_note-BBC-fine-16">[16]</a><a href="#cite_note-:1-17">[17]</a><a href="#cite_note-:2-18">[18]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Southwest_Airlines&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: See also">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Air_transportation_in_the_United_States" class="mw-redirect" title="Air transportation in the United States">Air transportation in the United States</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/State_Fair_Classic" title="State Fair Classic">State Fair Classic</a>, which Southwest Airlines formerly sponsored</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Effect_of_low-cost_airlines_on_communities" title="Effect of low-cost airlines on communities">Effect of low-cost airlines on communities</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Transportation_in_the_United_States" title="Transportation in the United States">Transportation in the United States</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nuts!_(book)" title="Nuts! 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