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Of all our bloggers, I am probably the oldest, but I don’t feel my age. I was born in 1952, just a couple of blocks from the Santa Fe Railway’s main transcontinental line in Clovis, New Mexico to an airline father, so transportation (planes and trains) got in my blood at an early age. As a child, my fondest memories are spending days at work with my dad on the ramp in Amarillo, Texas and on the old observation deck at Dallas Love Field. After graduating from Southern Methodist University in Dallas as a journalism major, I got my first airline job with Delta in 1976. During my time at Delta, I worked at Dallas/Fort Worth (during three separate occasions), Detroit, Oakland, Atlanta (at the old terminal), Portland, Oregon, Paris Orly, and Dayton, Ohio. My 18½ years with Delta were split between ramp/operations and ticket counter/gates.


I joined Southwest (thankfully!) in 1995, as a Reservations Sales Agent, but most of the time I have been in the communications group in the Executive Office. I correspond with our Customers on a wide variety of topics, but I also get to work on different projects like this blog. My duties also include proofing press releases, departmental newsletters, and proofing our Employee magazine, LUVLines. In addition, I am a freelance author for Airways magazine. (Yeah, transportation really is in my blood.)



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  Aw, Nuts!

  Dear anonymous, We hear your pain about e-mail, but as you know (and I realize you are venting), peanuts and e-mail are independent of each other. E-mail is on the way, but several system changes have to take place first before that can happen. We are working on those changes, and we know we are late coming to the e-mail "table," but we will get there. Brian

As a member of the PR Team, I do have the chance to work with several different groups in the Company.  One of those groups just happens to be Provisioning!  Now, what is exciting about that you ask, well…I get the chance to taste energy drinks (we went with Monster), look at all different kinds of coffee cups, taste snacks that might go into our snack trays, and discuss the most importan

Categories: Nutty stuff, Under the hood, Working at Southwest

Aug 25, 2008





  Winter Is Now For Sale!

  Chazzon, Stay tuned Bill is doing a post about the upcoming schedules. Brian

Winter is here!

 

Well, not really—it is 100 degrees in Dallas as we speak—but winter is


Categories: Working at Southwest

Aug 24, 2008




  I BLOGGED. YOU FLAMED. WE CHANGED.

  Martin, Stay tuned, Bill is doing another post about upcoming schedules. Brian

Admittedly, while that's not quite as catchy as Caesar's famous Latin phrase "veni, vidi, vici" ("I came, I saw, I conquered"), it pretty well sums up the aftermath of my â€Å

Categories:
Southwest Culture

Aug 24, 2008




  Help Me Decide

  How about as the Statue of Liberty. She can take it; she's a harbor chick! Or to celebrate the codeshare with WestJet, why not go as a lumberjack because 'they're okay."

I can’t believe it.  Summer is almost over, and Halloween is just around the corner.  This will be my fifth Halloween as Southwest’s CEO, and little did I know what kind of impact my costumes would have.  In 2004, I portrayed mega-rock star, Gene Simmons of KISS, [asset|

Categories: Nutty stuff, Southwest Culture, Working at Southwest

Aug 19, 2008





  All Cowed-up and Ready to Go

  I think those cows were in a fowl humor.

One of the things I love most about working for Southwest is that you can never really anticipate what exactly you’ll be doing from day to day.[a



Categories: Nutty stuff, Working at Southwest

Aug 15, 2008




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