Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Southwest Airlines was founded in 1966 by Herbert Kelleher and Rollin King, and incorporated as Air Southwest Co. in 1967.Three other airlines (Braniff, Trans-Texas Airways and Continental Airlines) 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 Civil ...
Southwest Airlines fleet. Southwest Airlines is the world's largest operator of the Boeing 737. As of May 2024, the Southwest Airlines fleet consists of 817 aircraft, making it the fourth-largest commercial airline fleet in the world. All of the aircraft Southwest Airlines operates are from the Boeing 737 family of narrow-body airliners.
October 17, 2023 at 2:40 PM. Southwest Airlines wants to make it easier for you to get status in its Rapid Rewards program. Beginning Jan. 1, it’s lowering the threshold to qualify for A-List ...
Pacific Southwest Airlines (PSA) was a low-cost US airline headquartered in San Diego, California, that operated from 1949 to 1988. It was the first substantial scheduled discount airline . PSA called itself "The World's Friendliest Airline" and painted a smile on the nose of its airplanes, the PSA Grinningbirds . [2]
Co-founder of Southwest Airlines. Spouse. Joan Negley. Children. 4. Herbert David Kelleher (March 12, 1931 – January 3, 2019) was an American billionaire airline businessman and lawyer. He was the co-founder, later CEO, and chairman emeritus of Southwest Airlines until his death in 2019.
Boeing 737-500 at Amarillo in 1994. Boeing 737-700 at McCarran International Airport, Las Vegas in 2008. Southwest Airlines began with the March 15, 1967, incorporation of Air Southwest Co. in San Antonio by Rollin King and Herb Kelleher with the intention of being a Texas intrastate airline. The idea was King's, Kelleher was his lawyer.
University of Texas, Austin ( BBA) Occupation. Business executive. Title. Chairman, Southwest Airlines. Term. 2008–present. Gary Clayton Kelly (born March 12, 1955) is an American business executive. He is the chairman and former chief executive officer of Southwest Airlines .
9. Southwest Airlines Flight 1248 was a scheduled passenger flight from Baltimore, Maryland, to Chicago, Illinois, continuing on to Salt Lake City, Utah, and then to Las Vegas, Nevada. On December 8, 2005, the airplane slid off a runway at Chicago-Midway while landing in a snowstorm and crashed into automobile traffic, killing a six-year-old boy.