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In December 2022, Southwest Airlines, a major U.S. airline, and the third largest by domestic passenger volume, [1] canceled more flights than usual, including more than 60% of its flights on two days. [2] The crisis spanned December 21–30, at the peak of the holiday travel season, and is referred to in the news media as the Southwest ...
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.
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 ...
April 30, 2024 at 6:08 AM. Southwest Airlines' delivery of a new Nashville International Airport crew base will arrive on time despite operational hurdles this year. Southwest is also increasing ...
Southwest crew members on the Fort Lauderdale plane attempted to calm the man down, but he continued to yell over the crying baby.
Southwest's Houston Pilot Base opened on June 1, 1984, its first crew base outside Dallas. 737-300 in original desert gold livery. On November 30, 1984, Southwest took delivery of its first Boeing 737-300. Southwest was a launch customer and in May 2012 was the largest operator of the type. The first 737-300 was dubbed "Kitty Hawk."
The air traffic controller on duty when FedEx and Southwest planes nearly collided earlier this year in Texas told investigators that he expected the airliner to take off more quickly — before ...
Southwest Chief in February 2020. The Southwest Chief (formerly the Southwest Limited and Super Chief) is a long-distance passenger train operated by Amtrak on a 2,265-mile (3,645 km) route between Chicago and Los Angeles through the Midwest and Southwest via Kansas City, Albuquerque, and Flagstaff. Amtrak bills the route as one of its most ...