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Southwest Airlines Co., American airline founded by Herbert Kelleher and Rollin King in 1966 and incorporated in 1967 as Air Southwest Company. In 1971, Air Southwest changed its name to Southwest Airlines and Boeing offered to sell Southwest three 737-200s. The headquarters of Southwest Airlines are located in Dallas Love Field. It is the world’s largest low- cost carrier.
For better business strategy it allows free checked baggage. On June 18, 1971, Southwest flew its first flights with six roundtrips between Dallas and San Antonio and 12 roundtrips between Dallas and Houston. During the “Fare war” in 1973, Southwest became the largest distributor in Texas of premium liquors like Chivas, Crown Royal and Smirnoff for two months. 1973 saw the airline’s first yearly profit with three Boeing 737s in its fleet.

In the early 21st century, Southwest underwent a period of major restructuring. New president was appointed in 2001, Collen Barrett, the first female as president of a major airline. Southwest turned a profit for 47 consecutive years from 1973 to 2019.

Southwest scheduled flights to cover over 100 destinations in 42 states- Mexico, Puerto Rico, Central America and Caribbean.

Till December 2022, Southwest operates 771 aircraft comprising of-
. Boeing 737-700 (429)
. Boeing 737-800 (207)
 . Boeing 737 MAX8 (150)

Southwest offers economy- class seats and does not have business or first class cabins. It offers free in-flight  non alcoholic beverages and offers alcoholic beverages for sale for $6 to $7 per beverage. All Southwest Airlines aircraft are equipped with Wi-Fi with free streaming live television, movies, music and app messaging.

By the end of 2007, airline crossed 88 million passengers flown in a year onboard 520 of its Boeing 737 aircraft. Till that time Southwest was a domestic carrier but the passengers want to travel internationally. So, airline signed the codeshare agreement with WestJet and still continuing this vein of expansion to major markets. Southwest Airlines had 62,333 employees by June 30, 2022.
Southwest continued to move on with its merger with AirTran in 2011. In the same year, it received permission from the Department of Transportation (DOT) to commence international flights.

For inquiry you can always visit official website of Southwest Airline (www.southwest.com). You can contact Southwest Airlines at 18004359792, wait time can be around 2 hours.
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