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Title: Southwest Airlines: Reaching New Heights


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Southwest AirlinesReaching New Heights
  • Chris Dietz
  • CISC 1055 Sec 121
  • Tuesday, July 17, 2007

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History of Southwest Airlines
  • 1971 Maiden flight
  • Service between Dallas, Houston, San Antonio
  • 1977 5 millionth passenger carried
  • Southwest stock listed on the NYSE as LUV
  • 1988 SWA wins the first Triple Crown best
    on-time record, best baggage handling, and fewest
    customer complaints
  • 1990 SWA announces billion dollar revenue mark
  • 2006 SWA operates 3300 daily flights to 63
    cities across USA

3
The Southwest Airlines Fleet
  • Currently operates 490 Boeing 737 jets
  • Average age of 9 years
  • Each aircraft flies an average of 13 hours per
    day
  • Average aircraft trip length is 627 miles

4
SWA Across The USA
  • SWA serves 63 cities across the USA
  • The shortest SWA daily flight is from Ft. Meyers
    to Orlando
  • The longest SWA daily flight is from Philadelphia
    to Oakland

5
SWA Accomplishments
  • 2006 Fortune Magazine ranked SWA as the 5th most
    admired corporation
  • 2007 SWA named to Forbes Platinum List
  • 2007 SWA named to Business Weeks list of
    Customer Service Champs

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SWA Fun Facts
  • In 2006 SWA served its passengers
  • 61.5 million cans of soda, juice, water
  • 10.9 million alcoholic beverages
  • 93.8 million bags of peanuts
  • 5 million bags of pretzels
  • 16 million snack packs

Thats a lot of food!
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SWA 2 Year Stock Trend
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SWA Leadership
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For More InformationWrite us atSouthwest
AirlinesP.O. Box 36647 - 1CRDallas, Texas
75235-1647or Call us at1-800-I-FLY-SWA(1-800-4
35-9792)
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You are now free to move about the country
( DING!)
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