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Here Comes Peanut Cottontail

By: Mallory Messina mmessina

Apr 08 2008
Picture this: A typical Wednesday afternoon at the office.  It's a short week, due to the Easter Holiday, so everyone is already starting to fall into "vacation mode," trying to push themselves through only 12 more hours of work before the long weekend begins.  Suddenly, someone dressed in a seriously funny costume comes hopping down the hall.  What would you do? If you worked at Southwest... read more

A Change in the Weather

By: Bob Hurst bhurst

Apr 07 2008
Video: Culture Volunteers Pass Out Goodies and Clean Planes Between Flights On Tuesday, March 18th, our Corporate Culture Committee had an event in Houston. It was a Hokey Day, which means groups of us met arriving planes, gave the Crews a few snacks and lots of appreciation, and cleaned the planes for them so the Flight Attendants could get just a little rest. Well ... that's the way the day... read more

WHY NO SOUTHWEST TO HAWAII?

By: Bill Owen bowen

Apr 04 2008
See below for April 10 update  Everyone at Southwest Airlines was saddened by the sudden termination of service by our codeshare partner, ATA Airlines. Setting aside the business relationship for just a second, we appreciate the hard work of our colleagues at ATA, and wish them nothing but the best in the future. However, I thought I should post a quick blog about a question that's come up MANY... read more

Congressional Hearings

By: Brian Lusk blusk

Apr 03 2008
Southwest Airlines will be providing testimony to today's (Thursday, April 3) hearing of the House of Representatives' Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, and our Executive Chairman, Herb Kelleher, and CEO Gary Kelly are scheduled to testify.  The hearing begins at 9:oo a.m. Central Time and can be viewed at the Committee's web site.  You can also access our press release by clicking... read more

Institutional Investor Magazine Honors our CEO and CFO

By: Paula Berg pberg

Apr 02 2008
Institutional Investor Magazine recently conducted surveys to identify America's Best CEOs and CFOs for 2008. The results told us what we already knew: Gary Kelly topped the list as the #1 CEO in the airline sector, and Laura Wright took top honors as the #1 CFO in the airline sector. Most of you know Gary, but for those of you that don't know Laura, allow me to introduce you. As CFO for... read more

No Fools, Just Fun!

By: Christi McNeill cday

Apr 01 2008
I love holidays. I love pranks. Mix the two and you get an amazing April Fool's Day. I thought about posting something outrageous such as ”Southwest to Begin Serving Inflight Meals” or ”CEO Gary Kelly Joins the Cast of Celebrity Apprentice.” Then I thought....nothing could be more fun than playing a prank on my own department. I enlisted the help of our extremely talented Graphic Design and... read more

The ABC's of Southwest Airlines' Corporate Community Affairs Team

By: Kim Delevett kdelevett

Mar 31 2008
I recently attended my first Corporate Community Relations Consortium meeting in San Jose, where corporate community relations/affairs professionals network and share benchmarks.  I left the meeting feeling a sense of pride for what these committed colleagues (representing Fortune 500 companies such as Yahoo, Intel, eBay, HP, Cisco Systems, and Adobe to name a few) collectively contribute back,... read more

James Bond and the DC-3

By: Brian Lusk blusk

Mar 28 2008
Okay, the only relation this post has to Southwest Airlines is that it is about aviation and I am writing it.  However, as a big James Bond fan and a even bigger fan of the Douglas DC-3--I took my first airplane ride on one in 1954, I had to share this post that I found on the Flight International blog.  It looks like the next Bond film is going to feature this venerable airliner. See ya at the... read more

Extreme Makeover Volunteers

By: Whitney Eichinger weichinger

Mar 27 2008
A couple of weeks ago a few Southwest Employees in the New Orleans area had the rare chance to participate in the filming for Extreme Makeover Home Edition!  As many of you know, Southwest is a long time sponsor of the show, and we even had the opportunity to incorporate a few airplane rooms into some of the previous episodes. This particular event involved one of our aircraft and the scene was... read more

Weigh to Go!

By: Carole Adams cadams

Mar 26 2008
 I woke up with my subconscious screaming, "Stop the insanity!"  On the day before the Super Bowl, I dined with friends at one of those restaurants serving continuous meats on a sword and endless salads, lobster bisque, vegetables...   It was truly the Last Supper!  Still feeling stuffed, my mind wandered back to the beginning of my career when we had Weight Check.  My maximum weight in 1984 was... read more