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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
Peer Companies
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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12 money-saving tips for renting a car
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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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Southwest settles lawsuit over safety issues
News & Analysis
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Midway privatisation moving closer?(Americas)
- 2008-01-01
Southwest Airlines has reached agreement with the City of Chicago that Mayor Richard Daley's office said is "a very big first step" toward its planned privatisation of Midway Airport. US legislation enacted in 1996 created a pilot programme for five airport privatisations. But the law states...
Four leaders in Chicago, Illinois
- 2007-02-01
As Theodore Hesburgh, president of the University of Notre Dame once said: "The very essence of leadership is that you have to have a vision." Latino Leaders magazine in conjunction with Southwest Airlines is proud to present you a new section in our magazine, dedicated to introduce you, our reader,...
Southwest plane baggage searched at Midway.(News)
- 2006-08-12
Byline: Joseph Ryan Daily Herald Staff Writer A Southwest Airlines jet arriving at Midway International Airport was searched by authorities and cleared Friday afternoon. The Transportation Security Administration requested the additional screening of baggage in the bay area of the plane when...
Better-defined runway safety marginssought
- 2006-06-22
WASHINGTON -- A two-day federal hearing into a fatal crash last December in Chicago has raised new questions about how airlines decide when it's safe to land in snow or ice. The National Transportation Safety Board NTSB hearing is the first in which federal investigators have offered a glimpse...
Family of victim describes grief after Midway crash.(News)
- 2005-12-21
Byline: Daily Herald news services On the same day two passengers aboard the Southwest Airlines that skidded off a runway at Midway filed a lawsuit, the parents of the crash's only fatality stepped forward for an exclusive interview with NBC-5's Amy Jacobson. ...
Airlines serving Lindbergh field
- 2005-12-19
AIRLINES SERVING LINDBERGH FIELD Ranked by number of passengers carried in and out of San Diego in 2004 ...
Southwest's 'good will' should keep fliers
- 2005-12-12
Thursday's crash landing of a Southwest Airlines jet at Chicago's Midway Airport is testing the maverick carrier's unorthodox corporate persona and its reputation in a way they've never been tested before. When Flight 1248 skidded off the end of Midway's runway, through a fence and into a highway intersection,...
Equipment trouble cited in crash
- 2005-12-12
The captain of the Southwest Airlines flight that slid off a Chicago runway and killed a 6-year-old boy in a car told investigators that he had trouble getting the jet's thrust reversers to slow the plane, an NTSB spokesman said Sunday. A delay in deploying the reversers could have...
Horrible surprise for family on a ride Investigation begins as mother, father mourn.(News)
- 2005-12-10
Byline: Joseph Ryan Daily Herald Staff Writer The three Woods' boys, ages 1, 4 and 6, sat in the back seat of the family car, behind their mom and dad, as they headed down Chicago's busy Central Avenue in the depths of a snowstorm Thursday...
US officials probe plane's deadly runway crash
- 2005-12-09
CHICAGO AFP — US authorities launched an investigation after a Southwest Airlines passenger jet skidded off a Chicago airport runway and into a street where it hit two cars and killed a child. The plane, which crashed through a steel barrier and then a concrete wall during a heavy...
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