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Market Cap:$8.3B
Last Fiscal Year Sales:$9.9B
- Public
- US
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Southwest Airlines was incorporated in Texas and commenced Customer Service on June 18, 1971, with three Boeing 737 aircraft serving three Texas cities - Houston, Dallas, and San Antonio. Today, Southwest operates more than 500 Boeing 737 aircraft between 64 cities. Southwest topped the monthly domestic originating passenger rankings for the first time in May 2003. Yearend results for 2007 marked Southwest?s 35th consecutive year of profitability. Southwest became a major airline in 1989 when it exceeded the billion-dollar revenue mark. Southwest is the United States? most successful low-fare, high frequency, point-to-point carrier. Southwest operates more than 3,300 flights a day coast to coast, making it the largest U.S. carrier based on domestic departures.
Number of Employees 35,000
Contact Information
2702 Love Field Dr
PO Box 36611
Dallas, Texas 75235-1908
(214) 792-4000
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NAICS Code Scheduled Passenger Air Transportation: 481111
Recent Events
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Southwest to fly out of P.C. to Baltimore, Orlando, Houston and Nashville
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Southwest Airlines November Traffic rises 11.7%, Load Factor climbs
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Southwest Airlines Declares 133rd Consecutive Quarterly Dividend
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Concur's Fourth Quarter and Fiscal 2009 Results Exceed Expectations
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Southwest, TDC inks pact in Dallas
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Blackstone Group buys Southwest Airlines shares
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Blackstone Group buys Southwest Airlines shares
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US Airways, Southwest take different odds on Las Vegas flights
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Trying to Understand Airline Executive Compensation
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Southwest Launches New Fare Sale
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Southwest Airlines Green Plane
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Southwest launches BWI-to-Milwaukee service
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Southwest pilots ratify contract
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American exec named Lambert airport director
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Frontier details new destinations, route adjustments
- 2008-02-18
DENVER -- Frontier Airlines Holdings Inc. announced it will expand service to eight cities across the Rockies as it works to improve the bottom line while coping with persistently high fuel costs and aggressive competition. Frontier Airlines will start the flights in April and May using turboprop aircraft...
In Brief
- 2007-07-10
Airfares on the rise Southwest Airlines Co. raised most of its fares by $1 to $10 each way over the weekend, and many competitors quickly matched the move. Southwest, which boasts about low fares, said it marked its third increase this year after six fare hikes in 2006. An...
Union eyes state's skycaps
- 2007-03-27
At the Southwest Airlines ticket counter at Oakland International Airport on Friday, it was business as usual, except for a small delegation of chanting, purple-shirted labor activists and contracted service workers demanding to speak with someone -- anyone -- in airline management. One Southwest manager promptly scurried...
Union eyes state's skycaps
- 2007-03-26
At the Southwest Airlines ticket counter at Oakland International Airport on Friday, it was business as usual, except for a small delegation of chanting, purple-shirted labor activists and contracted service workers demanding to speak with someone -- anyone -- in airline management. One Southwest manager promptly scurried...
Airport workers mobilizing
- 2007-03-26
At the Southwest Airlines ticket counter at Oakland International Airport on Friday, it was business as usual, except for a small delegation of chanting, purple-shirted labor activists and contracted service workers demanding to speak with someone -- anyone -- in airline management. One Southwest manager promptly scurried...
Union eyes airport workers
- 2007-03-26
At the Southwest Airlines ticket counter at Oakland International Airport on Friday, it was business as usual, except for a small delegation of chanting, purple-shirted labor activists and contracted service workers demanding to speak with someone -- anyone -- in airline management. One Southwest manager ...
Airport workers mobilizing
- 2007-03-25
At the Southwest Airlines ticket counter at Oakland International Airport on Friday, it was business as usual, except for a small delegation of chanting, purple-shirted labor activists and contracted service workers demanding to speak with someone -- anyone -- in airline management. One Southwest manager promptly scurried...
Union targets airport workers
- 2007-03-25
At the Southwest Airlines ticket counter at Oakland International Airport on Friday, it was business as usual, except for a small delegation of chanting, purple-shirted labor activists and contracted service workers demanding to speak with someone -- anyone -- in airline management. One Southwest manager promptly scurried...
Letters
- 2006-09-20
UP, UP, AND AWAY Airport numbers down because of runway repairs At the August meeting of the Colorado Springs Airport Advisory Commission, airport management reported that passenger traffic was down 9.2 percent in July when compared to the previous year and that a study...
False arrest.(U.S. JUDICIAL DECISIONS)(Case overview)
- 2006-07-01
FALSE ARREST. An appeals court has ruled that an airline employee subjected to a mock arrest as a workplace prank may sue the police officers involved in the prank. However, the employee may not sue her employer because the prank was meant as a joke and was...
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