Southwest Airlines

On a plane leaving Houston’s Hobby Airport Saturday, a woman tried to open an exit door in midflight and bit a passenger who tried to stop her, according to Houston authorities.

A Southwest Airlines pilot is suing the company, her union and a former colleague who pleaded guilty last year to dead-bolting the cockpit door during a flight and stripping naked in front of her.

A video of a Southwest Airlines pilot saying he will “pull back” the airplane and return to the gate if passengers do not stop sending nude photos over AirDrop has gone viral.

Life may be best viewed from 30,000 feet for Tamaron Nicklas who, after raising her children for two decades, has returned to the skies pursuing her dreams.

A Southwest Airlines flight attendant suffered a compression fracture to a vertebra in her upper back during a hard landing last month in California, according to federal safety investigators.

A California woman who punched a flight attendant in the face during a flight and broke her teeth has been sentenced to 15 months in federal prison.

Southwest and other carriers are working on upgrading cabins with more passenger comforts like in-seat power and faster internet as travelers return.

The free Wi-Fi on Southwest will be available from May 4 through June 10 on certain flights in the western U.S.

Flight delays and a cancellation inspired one couple to get married mid-air on a recent Southwest Airlines flight.

A Southwest spokeswoman said the airline saw “a significant and steady decline” in pilots calling in fatigued after the airline made schedule changes in November.

Southwest Airlines will resume selling alcohol on its flights this month, after discontinuing sales at the start of the coronavirus pandemic and following well publicized altercations between unruly passengers and staff.

Southwest Airlines says it will resume selling alcohol on flights, starting Feb. 16

A woman was arrested and a Southwest Airlines employee hospitalized after a confrontation at Dallas Love Field on Saturday, authorities say.

On Oct. 22, Mary MacCarthy booked a last-minute flight from LA to Denver because her brother had suddenly died the night before.

American Airlines is still trying to dig out from under a blizzard of cancelled flights over the last few days. By midday Monday, American had canceled more than 350 flights.

Southwest Airlines says it’s conducting an internal investigation after one of its pilots in greeting passengers used a phrase that’s become a stand-in for insulting President Joe Biden

“We are not going to fire any employees over this,” the company’s CEO said last week.

Major U.S. airlines are increasingly mandating COVID-19 vaccines for employees, but it’s not yet required of passengers. The possibility of establishing a vaccine mandate for domestic flights started circulating last month after California Sen. Dianne Feinstein introduced a bill to require either proof of vaccination or a negative COVID test, but no such policies have passed at this juncture. There are more...

A Texas couple heading to Las Vegas for vacation had a surprise stowaway in their luggage: their pet chihuahua.

When Southwest Airlines canceled more than 2,000 flights over the weekend, unsupported claims blaming vaccine mandates began taking off