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Gary Kelly on 2010 4Q earnings

Feb 01 2011
This episode of Red Belly Radio was recorded shortly after 2010 fourth quarter earnings were released. I got to sit down with our Chairman, President, and CEO, Gary Kelly and talk about our profit for the quarter and for the year. We also talk about fuel hedging and about some of the changes coming in 2011 and 2012. Give it a listen. This Red Belly Radio includes references to non-GAAP results. A... read more

Salty, Sweet, and Fun to Eat…Honey Roasted Peanuts Are Back!

Jan 31 2011
Tasty honey roasted peanuts are back and ready for takeoff! We like to shake it up at Southwest and switch between lightly salted and honey roasted peanuts.  The new year is all about tradition and the Spirit of Southwest as we celebrate our 40th anniversary, so what better way to celebrate than with the famous honey roasted nuts we all LUV?Honey roasted peanuts are the highlight of any... read more

Shaving for Success: The Saga of Ruppel's 'Stache

Jan 26 2011
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Customer Relations and Rapid Rewards Vice President, Jim Ruppel, said goodbye to his beloved mustache of 38 years recently at our CR/RR Department luncheon. The mustache, which is nearly as old as Southwest Airlines itself, has been around since Jim’s first semester of college- even his wife had never seen that precious skin underneath his nose. But Jim couldn’t hold on to the glory days of the... read more

Southwest Airlines to the Extreme!

Jan 26 2011
Southwest Airlines is proud to be a part of one of the most heart-warming, positive shows on television, ABC’s Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. In our seven years as a partner, we’ve done everything from shipping the Designers’ hard-to-find items through our Cargo department, helping design an authentic “airplane room” for a boy who loved aviation, sending a bunch of Employees to New Orleans to... read more

A New Look for Nuts About Southwest!

Jan 25 2011
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We hope you LUV the new look and feel of the Nuts About Southwest blog. Click around, comment, and let us know what you think. read more

Southwest Airlines Offers Extra Flights for the Big Game

Jan 24 2011
WOO-HOO! Now we all know which two teams are playing in The Big Game XLV—it’s Green Bay vs. Pittsburgh! And y’all are coming to *MY* home—the Dallas/Ft. Worth Metroplex—for the Big Game. Southwest is making it easier for you folks to come cheer your teams on to victory in “JerryWorld”—the new, amazing, billion-dollar stadium that is the host to this year’s game. (Seriously folks, this... read more

Ready, Set, Blog 3.0!

Jan 24 2011
We spent Friday reminiscing about our award-winning blog history of five years. From its infancy, Nuts About Southwest has always been a learning process and still remains one. At its core, Nuts is about letting Customers not only see behind the curtain, but tear the curtain down altogether. So it is with great pleasure I formally present our latest edition of Nuts About Southwest, fresh out of... read more

The Buzz in the Hangar

Apr 27 2006
One weekend evening we had some guests join us in the Dallas Maintenance Hangar. Somehow, a swarm of bees found their way inside the vertical stabilizer (tail) of one of the airplanes that was in for a scheduled maintenance visit. While they were flying around the tail, no Maintenance work could be done so SWA called in the professionals. Mr. Bee Keeper soon arrived with a hat net on his head and... read more

Celebremos tu Herencia

Oct 18 2010
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Last Tuesday, October 12th, Southwest Airlines celebrated Hispanic Heritage month in beautiful Bryant Park, New York City.  We partnered with The Pregones Theater Company to give us a glimpse of the poetry of Sandra Maria Esteves, one of the founders of the Nuyorican poetry movement through the interpretation of "Until We Win" with music and dance. The event also featured guest speaker... read more

Is this thing on?

May 03 2006
Is this thing on? Where do I start this? Do I tell you about me? I love college football, Joey Ramone, dumb jokes and …… Write something huh? Writing makes me sweat. I'm confined. I can't breathe. Give me a room full of people and I can talk all day. All day. About anything. Writing means I have to follow some sort of order and structure. I hate that. However, the lack of structure is... read more