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Archive for October 2011

Snakes on a Plane: Now Showing at a HOU Gate Near You

By: Tracey Harper tharper

Oct 29 2011
You may not think of fine décor when you think of Maintenance, but here in Houston Maintenance, we’ve got decorating down to a fine art.   We take a lot of pride in our entries in the Company’s gate-decorating contests during the holidays, and it shows. I don’t mean to brag, but this year we led the Maintenance category for both our “40 Years of LUV” Valentine’s Day gate... read more

Happy Halloween: 2011 Edition!

By: Christi McNeill cday

Oct 28 2011
Halloween is in full effect here at Southwest Airlines Headquarters.  Why do we LUV Halloween so much?  It’s a great way for us to be a little kooky, crazy, and have FUN at work!  It’s also a great chance to bring out our competitive side.   Every year we turn our Headquarters into a Haunted Headquarters.  All departments are eligible can enter a contest with skits,... read more

Flashback Fridays: The Last Boeing 717 Ends a Proud Era

By: Brian Lusk blusk

Oct 28 2011
Take a look at the postcard photo above from Los Angeles International in the 1950s.  Do you see a pattern?  Well, obviously there are no jets, but look again.  Every airplane in the photo was made in Southern California.  The Douglas DC-6s and DC-7s were made at Santa Monica, the TWA Lockheed Super Constellation at Burbank, and the American and Western Convair 240s at San... read more

MilePoint Chat: Transcript From Thursday, Oct 20 8 - 9pm CST

By: Jonathan Clarkson jclarkson

Oct 27 2011
UPDATE: Thanks to all of you who tuned in on Thursday to ask questions about our Rapid Rewards program during the live milepoint chat.  In the event you weren’t able to join (I mean, there was a little baseball game called the World Series on), please feel free to click here for the replay.  I’ve very much enjoyed hearing from our Members, and I look forward to more dialogue... read more

Beating Breast Cancer

By: Pam Krisik pkrisik

Oct 27 2011
My story began three years ago, when I went for my annual mammogram.  I will preface this by saying I have no family history of breast cancer and have had normal mammograms for 10 years.  During the procedure, the technician brought to my attention a lump in my left breast and asked if I had noticed it before that appointment.  I had not been aware of it, even though I had been... read more

Kids These Days

By: Susie Angiolilli sangiolilli

Oct 26 2011
How often have you heard that phrase?  I’m sure every generation has said it at one point, but then the kids prove us wrong—like in the program, Do the Write Thing Challenge.  Southwest Airlines is a national sponsor of this program and provides passes for the ambassadors and their families.  This initiative brings together community, business, and governmental leaders to help... read more

A Night With The Fray

By: Ashley Pettit apettit

Oct 24 2011
Southwest Airlines traveled to New York City this week for an intimate performance featuring the multi-platinum rock band, The Fray. In the heart of New York City’s Lower East Side, guests packed the Angel Orensanz Center for a special performance at one of New York’s oldest and most beautiful synagogues.  Throughout the show, the Denver-based band performed several crowd favorites... read more

Station Manager Playoffs Challenge

By: Allison Osborne aosborne

Oct 22 2011
Being born and raised a Cubs fan, playing baseball through the middle of October is something unknown to me. September always brings the same shrug, “Maybe next year,” and my insistence that it’s football season.  However, after recently moving to Dallas, I have found myself in the middle of Ranger Nation, where winning, unlike my Cubs, isn’t anything new. Now that the end of the playoffs... read more

Caption Contest: Pre-Game Warmups

By: Brooks Thomas bthomas

Oct 21 2011
 To me, Halloween means trick-or-treating, costumes, and playoff baseball.  And at Headquarters in Dallas, things are buzzing.  I know Southwest serves 72 great cities, but at home base, we're all pumped for our Texas Rangers. In the summer, several Rangers players traded places with our Employees in the Field (our field).  Mitch Moreland was one of them.  ... read more

One LUV, Two Languages

By: Kristy Bolton kbolton

Oct 20 2011
At Southwest Airlines, we already know that we speak our own little language—one full of LUV and Southwest Spirit.  But aside from our FUN culture references, we’ve found that we use slightly different terminology than our Friends at AirTran—and we really notice it here in the Operations Coordination Center (OCC). See, while our folks are working hard in the OCC, their AirTran counterparts... read more