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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
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Southwest Airlines Green Plane
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American exec named Lambert airport director
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On Teaching And Learning About Spirituality In The Workplace At The MBA Level
- 2008-01-01
In the summer of 2005, two LA-based professors specializing in Organizational Leadership, facilitated an MBA course titled "Spirituality in the Workplace," with the intention to better prepare their students in the changing reality of the modern workplace. In wake of recent corporate scandals and terrorist events in the international...
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...
Five Steps to Reducing the Costs of Loss
- 2006-03-13
Most airline travelers are familiar with Southwest Airlines and its efficient, speedy approach to hoarding. Say what you will about that process, Southeast's swift turn-around time is the envy of the airline industry."Efficiency" may be overused as a management buzz word. But from a risk-management perspective, we can leam from...
Airlines workers wage campaign to sway Sen. Inhofe
- 2005-07-29
Southwest Airlines held an employee letter-writing campaign in Oklahoma City Thursday to try to sway U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe from legislation to close a Dallas airport. Inhofe recently submitted Senate Bill 1425 to shut down all commercial traffic at Love Field Airport on the basis that it would...
Now boarding?
- 2005-07-04
A deal is pending that might put more than 500 workers back in the Southwest Airlines reservation center in Little Rock. Max Heuer, a spokeswoman for Arkansas Blue Cross & Blue Shield, confirmed that the state's dominant health insurance firm is working on a contract that would necessitate opening...
Increasing productivity a necessity for airlines
- 2005-01-09
To fix bloated costs, the financially ailing airline industry prescribed itself a familiar treatment in recent years: Slash wages and benefits. Now, with the limitations of that approach apparent as large carriers continue to lose money, experts say the cure lies in operational improvements that enhance work force...
Large Dallas-Fort Worth employers call off flu-vaccine drives.
- 2004-10-12
By Victor Godinez, The Dallas Morning News Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Oct. 12--Some of the largest employers in Dallas-Fort Worth are calling off scheduled flu drives due to the shortage of the vaccine reported last week. Experts say the...
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