For ten, all-too-short years, the sight of Mt. Hood passing off the left side of the airplane was a welcome-home greeting to me.

Thirty-eight years ago this month, Southwest Airlines began its relationship in the Puget Sound region when we purchased our first Boeing plane.  Fifteen years ago this weekend, Southwest Airlines broadened its LUV affair in the Northwest by offering scheduled flights from Seattle, Portland, and Spokane on June 6, 1994.  That’s when I came on board and joined the Southwest Family--and I h

Sometimes you just have to stop and smell the oranges.

Especially yesterday because Orange County celebrated 15 years of Service with Southwest Airlines, and we had a tubular time.

Not to mention that SWA is SO in LUV with the OC.

Long ago and in an airline galaxy far, far away, I was a young man starting out in my airline career.  The year was 1977, and I had been with Delta Air Lines just about a year (I was a young and skinny, naïve 24-year-old at the time) when I transferred to Oakland (OAK) and helped open our station.  When I realized that today is Southwest’s 20th Anniversary of serving OAK, I began to get