Southwest Airlines
The airline was established on March 15, 1967, by Herb Kelleher as Air Southwest Co. and adopted its current name, Southwest Airlines Co., in 1971, when it began operating as an intrastate airline wholly within the state of Texas, first flying between Dallas, Houston and San Antonio. The airline has nearly 60,000 employees and operates about 4,000 departures a day during peak travel season.
1967-03-15T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
March 15, 1967
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Q764247
Herb Kelleher
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Southwest Airlines
ORG
1971-01-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
1971
DATE
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intrastate airline
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Q503308
Southwest Airlines
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1967-03-15T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
March 15, 1967
DATE
Q503308
Southwest Airlines
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Q764247
Herb Kelleher
PER