Southwest Airlines Passenger Fleet Of Aircraft

Southwest Airlines is an American low cost airline the airline has its headquarters on the grounds of Dallas Love Field in Dallas texas southwest is the largest airline in the world by number of passengers carried per year southwest maintains the third largest passenger fleet of aircraft among all of the world's commercial airlines southwest operates more than flights daily southwest Airlines is one of the world’s most profitable airlines.


Southwest's successful business model involves flying multiple short quick trips into the secondary more efficient and less costly airports of major markets and using only one aircraft type the Boeing southwest has been a major inspiration to other low cost carriers and its business model has been repeated many times around the world the best known airlines to follow Southwest's business strategy in that continent.


Some of the incumbent airlines of the time braniff aloha Airlines United Airlines trans texas and continental Airlines initiated legal action and thus began a three year legal battle to keep Air Southwest on the ground Air Southwest eventually prevailed in the texas Supreme Court which ultimately upheld Air Southwest’s right to fly in Texas according to air safety investigators In some cases the planes were allowed to fly the inspection deadlines had passed rendering them unfit to fly.