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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 ...
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 815 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.
N772SW, the aircraft involved, photographed in 2016. Southwest Airlines Flight 1380 was a Boeing 737-700 that experienced a contained engine failure [a] in the left CFM International CFM56 engine after departing from New York–LaGuardia Airport en route to Dallas Love Field on April 17, 2018. The engine cowl was broken in the failure, and cowl ...
Southwest Airlines will pay a $35 million fine as part of a $140 million settlement to resolve a federal investigation into a debacle in December 2022 when the airline canceled thousands of ...
142. Southwest Airlines Flight 1455 was a scheduled passenger flight from McCarran International Airport, Las Vegas, Nevada, to Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport, Burbank, California, that overran the runway during landing on March 5, 2000. The aircraft, a Boeing 737-3T5, registration N668SW, [2] came to rest on a city street adjacent to a gas ...
Southwest Airlines Flight 345. / 40.77472°N 73.87889°W / 40.77472; -73.87889. Southwest Airlines Flight 345 was a scheduled flight from Nashville International Airport, Tennessee, to New York City 's LaGuardia Airport. On July 22, 2013, the Boeing 737 operating the route suffered a front landing gear collapse while landing at ...
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.