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Flashback Fridays: A Look at the Interchange Era
I think many folks, including a lot of our Employees, have no idea of what airline regulation used to be like. The airline world into which Southwest Airlines was born in 1971 was very much different...
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The Day the World Changed
Sixty years ago on May 2, 1952, the world changed forever. On that date, the jet age began as British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) made the first commercial jet flight with the de Havilland...
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Flashback Fridays: A Very Southwest-like, Non-Southwest Tale—Pioneer Air Lines
This is a story of a Dallas-based airline that was led by an aviation entrepreneur and a lawyer; it faced a long legal battle with Braniff just to get into the air; it had a highly motivated group of...
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Flashback Fridays: An Airline Future That Never Was
A week or so ago, I received an amazing book from a lifelong friend from my childhood. The book dates to 1944, and it is printed on pulp paper because higher quality “slick” paper was in short supply...
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Flashback Fridays: An Airline Future That Never Was, Part Two
Back before the holidays, I shared some photos in a book my best friend from childhood had sent me. The book, Transport Aircraft of the World by Lester Ott, was published in 1944, a climactic year...
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Flashback Fridays: Generations
I think that this “Best of” Flashback Fridays, which originally ran on July 13, 2012, is the perfect pick for this week, but that doesn’t mean it was an easy choice to make. I must admit that it was...
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Best of Flashback Fridays: Origins of the Boeing 737, Part Three
This week’s “Best of” post focuses on the Boeing 737 “Classics” family—specifically, the -300, -400, and -500 series—and the role that Southwest played in the development of the 300s and 500s. This...
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