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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 ...
In October 2020, Southwest Airlines announced it would return to Bush airport for the first time since it stopped serving the airport in 2005. Service began in April 2021 with five nonstop destinations, augmenting the several dozen destinations it serves from Hobby airport. On July 20, 2022, Spirit Airlines crew base plans were cleared. It was ...
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.
On April 7, 2024, Southwest Airlines Flight 3695, a Boeing 737-800 bound for Houston, Texas, suffered a detached engine cowling which struck a wing flap during take-off. The plane returned to Denver, where it landed safely. The incident was recorded by a passenger and put on online media. There were no injuries reported to passengers or crew.
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.