Nuts About Southwest

Age five in blog age is probably like 15 years in dog age or maybe like age 40 in Southwest years.  I’ve been around Nuts About Southwest for all five of those blog years, so on the eve of the debut of our new blog platform, I thought we could flashback through the history of this blog. 608 ... read more

In keeping with our 40th Anniversary year, let’s take a look at some of our earliest print advertisements.  As anyone who has studied or experienced Southwest Airline’s earliest days will know, our cash was short, but we were long on creativity and gumption, which really shows in some of these advertisements. 272 ... read more

Welcome to the first Flashback Fridays of 2011, and as most of you may know, this year marks Southwest Airlines’ 40th Anniversary.  From time to time throughout the year, I will be sharing information and photos from 1971, and we start that off today.  But, before we do, I have an extra credit question that won’t win you anything other than pride in having a correct answer:  What other 388 ... read more

In part one of our previous Flashback to Oakland in the late 1970s, we primarily looked at the scheduled airlines and cargo charters.  In this final installment, we take a look at some lar 218 ... read more

For the next two holiday editions of Flashback Fridays, I thought I would share some photos that I took back when I was the youngest instead of oldest in my work group.  At the start of my airline career, I worked several years in Oakland for Delta.  We only had three flights a day, so there was a lot of free time, even after we cleaned the layover aircraft’s interiors from stem to stern ... read more