Southwest Airlines

As more people fly for the first time since the pandemic, they’re getting hit with some harsh realities of what it’s like to travel in 2021.

Southwest Airlines said late Monday it was resuming operations after an issue with its weather data provider grounded hundreds of flights nationwide.

An unlikely friendship between an airline’s top executive and a rival carrier’s flight attendant is proof of the power of a simple conversation – and serves as a lesson on race relations for the entire country.

A retired Southwest Airlines pilot has been sentenced to probation after pleading guilty to exposing his genitals to a female co-pilot and watching pornography in the cockpit during a flight from Philadelphia to Florida last year

One week after announcing it would resume alcohol sales after months of pandemic-related safety protocols, Southwest Airlines on Friday said it would not bring back the service in the wake of several recent passenger disruptions on flights.

New video shows the attack on a Southwest Airlines that left a flight attendant bloodied and without two teeth.

Cellphone video captured the moment a Southwest Airlines flight attendant was assaulted during a disagreement over the airline’s mask policy.

A Southwest Airlines flight attendant lost two teeth when she was attacked by a passenger this weekend, and the president of her union calls it part of a disturbing increase in unruly passengers

A flight attendent is suing Southwest Airlines for her husband’s COVID-19 death. She alleges she caught the virus while at a mandatory training last summer. The 69-year-old woman survived the illness, but her 73-year-old husband died a month later. NBC 5’s Sophia Beausoleil spoke with the woman’s attorney.

Federal authorities have charged a former Southwest Airlines pilot with indecent exposure for an incident they say occurred during a flight last August. Michael Haak was the pilot in command of the plane during a flight from Philadelphia to Orlando, Florida, according to a one-page filing in federal district court in Maryland. According to the document, which was dated Friday,…

Southwest Airlines is lifting the threat of furloughs or pay cuts for thousands of workers now that U.S. airlines will get up to $15 billion more in taxpayer aid contained in the coronavirus-relief bill.

Southwest Airlines will again be booking middle seats on flights. All passengers are still required to wear masks aboard the plane.

Southwest Airlines hopes their planes will be a little more full starting December 1. That’s when the Dallas-based carrier will resume filling the middle seat. Southwest doesn’t assign seats but had been underselling the cabin in order to free up the middle seat to make travelers feel safer during the pandemic. The airline defended its decision in a statement,...

Southwest Airlines says its workers must take pay cuts or face furloughs next year.

About 40,000 workers in the airline industry are facing layoffs on Thursday unless Congress comes up with another aid package.

Southwest Airlines will soon test thermal cameras to spot travelers who are running a fever, a symptom of COVID-19.

More airline employees are signing up for buyouts, leaves of absence and early retirements as the threat of furloughs looms this summer.

Southwest Airlines said Tuesday that new bookings are outpacing cancellations, a turning point in the pandemic that has devastated air travel demand. The Dallas-based carrier said its May operating revenue will likely be down no more than 90% year over year, compared with a previous estimate for a decline as much as 95% compared with May 2019. It added that it’s…

A passenger on a South Florida flight was able to practice the optimal social distancing during the coronavirus pandemic, as he found himself to be the lone man aboard the plane Thursday evening. Bob Pitts, the sole passenger on a Southwest Airlines flight, says he was traveling to St. Louis from Fort Lauderdale to attend his mother’s wake. Before...

A man on a Southwest Airlines flight from Ft. Lauderdale to St. Louis on Thursday night didn’t need a seat in first class to receive VIP treatment. That’s because he was the only passenger on the plane, NBC News reports. Bob Pitts documented some of the flight in a series of videos. “We’re going on our little flight from...