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
  

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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

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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

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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!)