2024 to be world’s hottest year on record, per EU scientists 2024 is “virtually certain” to eclipse 2023 as the world’s warmest since records began, according European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service. An unseasonably warm week across Central Indiana could close out with thunderstorms. Daily high temperatures will gradually climb throughout the week to the…
A Southwest Airlines plane and a private business jet narrowly avoided a collision at Chicago’s Midway Airport on Tuesday morning, CBS News has confirmed. Video shows Southwest flight 2504 from Omaha coming in for a landing at the airport, then quickly aborting to avoid a potential collision with the business jet that was taxiing across…
United States, China, India, Germany, Japan, United Kingdom, France, Canada, Italy, and Brazil Drive the Four Hundred- Thirty Billion Dollars Airline…
United States: Ontario International Airport Rises as a Star in Air Travel, Surpassing Expectations with Twenty- Seven Percent Growth Since 2019…
As airlines across the industry expand their fee structures, Southwest Airlines (LUV) is taking a unique approach to its transformation strategy. CEO Bob Jordan joins Morning Brief to explain how the company’s plans prioritize customer preferences and needs. Jordan emphasizes that Southwest’s evolution is driven by customer demand. He points to services like assigned seating…
The storm’s timing couldn’t have been worse. In late December of 2022, an “extratropical cyclone” brought all manner of menacing winter conditions to two-thirds of the U.S., including the entire Eastern Seaboard and parts of Canada. Wind-chill warnings, whiteouts, and extraordinary snowfall complicated travel for millions. Flight cancellations from what was unofficially dubbed Winter Storm…
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Southwest Airlines Director Rakesh Gangwal, who was picked by the company to join its board amid growing pressure from an activist investor, bought more than $100 million in stock and said on Wednesday more top level leadership changes would be “counterproductive.” Gangwal, who co-founded low-cost Indian carrier InterGlobe Aviation, or IndiGo,…
Southwest Airlines introduces premium seating with extra legroom to boost revenue. Regular seats on about 450 planes will lose an inch of legroom, shrinking to 31 inches. Southwest’s new seating options align with competitors like American, Delta, and United. Southwest Airlines has an activist firm breathing down its back to cut costs and generate more…
DALLAS (AP) — Leaders of Southwest Airlines are set to explain Thursday how they plan to remodel the airline to change with consumer tastes — and maybe keep their own jobs. They will give more details at an investor meeting about dumping so-called open seating, charging a premium for the best seats, and launching red-eye…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — An Alaska Airlines flight that had been cleared for takeoff in Nashville, Tennessee, was forced to abort Thursday to avoid colliding with a taxiing Southwest Airlines plane, authorities said. No injuries were reported. Alaska said in a statement that the pilots of Flight 369 to Seattle had to quickly apply the…