Southwest's Cofounders got together in 1967 to discuss their idea for a new airline that would bring the Freedom to Fly to America, and when Rollin King finished sketching out the idea on a cocktail napkin, Herb Kelleher told him, "Rollin, you're crazy.

I'm actually more of a fan of David Letterman, so I missed this skit on Conan the other day.

The airline industry is a small industry, and we all have friends and family at the various airlines. I think everyone was feeling for the employees and passengers of JetBlue this past week.

Of course, I am in Marketing and did appreciate the promotion of our ontime efforts.

DING! You are now free to make reservations on Southwest Airlines for travel through August 24, 2007!

I've posted before about how I like the randomness of my job. After reading some of the posts and comments, it appears that lots of people appreciate randomness as well. It doesn't necessarily matter what the blog post is, if someone wants to ask about a future city they just ask. Or maybe they just want to let us know about a nice Flight Attendant.

The Southwest Blog Crew hopes that everyone had a great Holiday Season, and we thought we would start out the New Year with some Holiday photos from James Malone--see below!