Airlines are planning for a big December, believing that the recent surge in a highly contagious COVID-19 variant is fading and that holiday travel will soar.
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Southwest Airlines will let unvaccinated employees keep working past early December instead of putting them on unpaid leave if they apply for an exemption.
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October 12, 2021
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Southwest Airlines flights appeared to be running closer to normal Tuesday after the airline canceled nearly 2,400 flights over the previous three days.
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October 11, 2021
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Southwest Airlines canceled several hundred more flights after a weekend of major disruptions that it blamed on bad weather and air traffic control issues.
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October 5, 2021
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Southwest Airlines is the latest U.S. airline to require its employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19.
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September 14, 2021
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Southwest Airlines President Tom Nealon, who was once seen as a leading candidate for CEO but was passed over this year, has retired.
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August 11, 2021
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Southwest Airlines no longer expects to turn a profit in the third quarter as a surge in COVID-19 infections darkens the outlook for travel.
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If you fly out of Baltimore Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport, chances are pretty good you’ll be on a Southwest Airlines flight. After all, Southwest is far and away the dominant carrier at BWI. So you may be interested in ...
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March 1, 2019
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DALLAS — Southwest Airlines has raised the stakes in a showdown with its union of aircraft mechanics by filing a lawsuit over what it claims is an illegal work slowdown that is grounding planes and disrupting flights. It is Southwest’s ...
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January 4, 2019
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Not many CEOs dress up as Elvis Presley, settle a business dispute with an arm-wrestling contest, or go on TV wearing a paper bag over their head. Herb Kelleher did all those things.
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