Southwest Airlines has reported fourth quarter net income of $522 million compared with fourth quarter 2015 net income of $ 536 million. Excluding special items, fourth quarter net income was $463 mil...
Southwest Airlines Flight 480 was being towed on Saturday night when it struck the right side of a parked American Eagle aircraft operated by Republic Airlines. The American Eagle aircraft sustained d...
Southwest Airlines chairman and chief executive officer Gary C. Kelly has announced changes to the company's executive leadership ranks with Thomas M. Nealon named as president and Michael G. Van de V...
Southwest Airlines flew 10.4 billion revenue passenger miles (RPMs) in December 2016, an increase of 4.2 percent from the 10.0 billion RPMs flown in December 2015. Available seat miles (ASMs) increase...
Four US airlines – American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Southwest and United Continental – have lost a bid to dismiss nationwide antitrust litigation by passengers who have claimed they conspired to ra...
Southwest Airlines has promoted Reid Grandle, senior director in the corporate strategy department, to vice president corporate strategy, succeeding Mike Delehant, who recently left Southwest Airlines...
Southwest Airlines CEO Gary Kelly has said that the carrier is continuing with its fuel heading strategy of hedging 50% of its fuel needs by the start of the year. "We've had very successful hedging o...
A Southwest Airlines aircraft, Flight 2390, traveling from Columbus to Denver made an emergency landing at Midway to "investigate potential smoke in the cockpit”. "Following airport protocol, the towe...
As part of its ongoing investigation of an August 27, 2016, uncontained engine failure on Southwest Airlines flight 3472, the National Transportation Safety Board issued an investigative update yester...
ANA Holdings has confirmed that it will replace all 100 Rolls-Royce engines on its fleet of Boeing 787s following three engine failures caused by corrosion and cracking of turbine blades. The 50 787s ...
Last night at Eppley International Airport in Omaha, a man breached security, jumped into a truck and drove it into the nose gear of a 737 aircraft that was boarding for a flight to Denver. Several So...
Southwest Airlines’ senior vice president of labor relations, Randy Babbitt, has announced his retirement after 50 years in the commercial aviation industry. Babbitt joined Southwest in 2012 and has s...
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