Today is Southwest's 38th Birthday, and to celebrate the occasion, our CEO, Gary Kelly, accompanied by other Southwest Employees, rang the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange this morning.

For ten, all-too-short years, the sight of Mt. Hood passing off the left side of the airplane was a welcome-home greeting to me.

When it comes from getting to “here” from “there,” there has been a constant push  to do it faster (until the demise of Concorde at least), more reliably, and more comfortably.  The steamship doomed the sailing vessels by eliminating the need for a following wind, and steam locomotive made long distance train travel possible.  The Wright Brothers' use of controllable devices made s

Long ago and in an airline galaxy far, far away, I was a young man starting out in my airline career.  The year was 1977, and I had been with Delta Air Lines just about a year (I was a young and skinny, naïve 24-year-old at the time) when I transferred to Oakland (OAK) and helped open our station.  When I realized that today is Southwest’s 20th Anniversary of serving OAK, I began to get

Every year, Employees in every department of our Company nominate Coworkers for one of Southwest’s highest honors, the President’s Award.  This honor recognizes Employees who consistently go above and beyond as part of their daily routine, and the recipients are presented at the annual Awards Banquet next month.  Eve