Southwest Airlines Traffic Rises 8.7 Percent
Southwest Airlines said that passenger traffic rose 8.7 percent in April, topping the results at big rivals.
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Southwest Airlines said that passenger traffic rose 8.7 percent in April, topping the results at big rivals.
Southwest Airlines has closed its purchase of AirTran Airways. For travelers, nothing much changes right away.
The CEO of Boeing says a "workmanship issue" and not poor design led to a hole ripping open in a Southwest Airlines plane.
U.S. antitrust regulators cleared the way for Southwest's purchase of AirTran, saying the combination isn't likely to hurt competition.
The five biggest U.S. airlines showed a combined loss of more than $1 billion for the first quarter. Soaring fuel prices are the big culprit.
Investigators trying to determine why the roof of a Southwest Airlines jet peeled open in flight this month are focusing on the manufacturing process at Boeing.
By the thinnest of margins, Southwest Airlines Co. made money in the first quarter despite higher fuel prices.
By the thinnest of margins, Southwest Airlines says it made money in the first quarter despite higher fuel prices.
Southwest Airlines Co. more than doubled the compensation for its CEO last year, to nearly $3.4 million, thanks mainly to a stock award worth $1.8 million.
A Southwest Airlines jetliner that had a fuselage rupture above Arizona early this month is headed back to Dallas after being repaired.
A flight emergency last week is focusing attention on older model Boeing jets around the world.
The CEOs of Southwest Airlines and American Airlines are giving a vote of confidence to Boeing.
Southwest Airlines says four planes being repaired for cracks in their aluminum skin will likely return to service by Saturday.
Southwest Airlines says it has finished inspecting planes grounded since the weekend.
Boeing was surprised when a section of a Southwest jetliner's fuselage ripped open in flight because the plane wasn't old enough to be worrisome, a company official said Tuesday.
Southwest Airlines canceled 70 flights nationwide Monday as it continues to inspect a number of older Boeing 737 aircrafts.
A Southwest Airlines plane with 142 people diverted to Los Angeles because of a burning electrical smell in the passenger cabin.
Southwest Airlines canceled about 600 flights this weekend as the airline continues its inspection of a number of its Boeing 737 aircraft in the aftermath of a hole tearing open on one of its planes in mid-air Friday afternoon.
Federal records show cracks were found and repaired a year ago in the frame of the Southwest Airlines Boeing 737-300 that made an emergency landing at an Arizona military base after a hole was torn from the passenger cabin.
More information is coming out about the Southwest Airlines' Boeing 737-300 that had a hole open up on its roof during flight Friday afternoon.
Friday was a rough day in the skies for both North Texas-based airlines. A Southwest Airlines jet had to divert in Arizona just hours after an American Airlines flight had to land in Ohio.
The airlines' latest effort to broadly raise U.S. fares by $10 per round trip has crumbled.
AirTran Airways shareholders voted Wednesday to sell the discount airline to bigger rival Southwest for $1.4 billion.
Southwest Airlines has joined a sweeping increase of $10 in the price of many domestic round-trip airfares.
The Dallas mayor is proposing to rename a street near Dallas Love Field Airport for longtime Southwest Airlines CEO Herbert D. Kelleher.
