Southwest Airlines
The boarding process and seating strategies of Dallas-based airline, Southwest has long been a hot-button issue. Southwest Airlines plans not to ditch its cattle-call boarding for assigned seating but announced to switch to a more orderly system...
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The attorney for a man accused of binding the hands of a teenage girl on a Southwest Airlines flight and trying to do the same to her sister said it was merely...
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A 29-year-old man was arrested Tuesday for allegedly binding the hands of a teenager sitting next to him on a Southwest Airlines flight and trying to tape her older...
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A Southwest Airlines spokeswoman says smoke from a faulty cockpit fan, not a fire, prompted a flight to return to Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall...
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Southwest Airlines says its profit rose in the second quarter as the company saved money on fuel, and revenue increased 11 percent.The airline said Thursday it earned...
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The computer screen on Scott Topping’s desk at Southwest Airlines flickered with row after row of dates and numbers, but they had nothing to do with arrivals and...
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Southwest Airlines Co. expects to grow modestly through next year but may freeze its expansion plans if oil prices and the economy remain challenging, the...
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Southwest Airlines says a passenger who refused to get off his cell phone during a flight found Dallas police waiting for him.The Dallas Morning News reports that...
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Southwest Airlines says soaring fuel costs slashed its first-quarter profit by almost two-thirds. It also has cut its plane delivery plans for 2009 in half.Dallas-based...
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A Southwest Airlines plane has returned to Dallas after experiencing engine trouble shortly after departing.Southwest spokeswoman Marilee McInnis says the flight had...
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Four of the planes that Southwest Airlines Co. grounded for inspections this week were found to have cracks in their fuselages and were undergoing repair, the company...
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Southwest Airlines Co. grounded 43 planes to examine if they were structurally sound enough to carry passengers after it recently acknowledged it had missed required...
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Southwest Airlines grounded 41 planes overnight in the wake of its recent admission that it had missed required inspections of some planes for structural cracks.The...
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Southwest Airlines says it grounded 41 planes last night in the wake of its recent admission that it had missed required inspections of some planes for structural...
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Officials say a Southwest Airlines jet has returned to Phoenix’s Sky Harbor airport after pilots reported smoke in the cockpit.A Southwest spokeswoman says a...
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Boeing has turned away Southwest Airlines, Boeing’s best customer to date having sold a whopping 477 Boeing 737s to the company alone. Southwest Airlines that...
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Airlines are to increase the ticket prices for the coming summer travel season. They are expecting to cash-in the coming demand of crowded air traveling.
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Corporate travelers group, DALLAS is on dispute with American Airlines over passenger service in Dallas. The Business Travel Coalition concludes that Dallas Love Field...
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You might need to buy a second seat on a flight if you are over weight. This is not a new law pertaining to Air Flights, but an incident that happened with a woman on...
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