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Southwest Airlines
Southwest Airlines Co. is a major American airline headquartered in Dallas, Texas, and is the world's largest low-cost carrier.
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 more than 59,000 employees and operates about 4,000 departures a day during peak travel
tedious economic condition of this post deregulation "start up" carrier. The ATA Connection service flown by commuter air carrier Chicago Express Airlines was also operated on a codeshare basis.
ATA was not involved in an alliance.
Codeshare agreements Southwest Airlines.
ATA Airlines, one of Southwest Airlines' main competitors in the Chicago market, historically operated out of Midway Airport alongside Southwest. After ATA declared bankruptcy in 2004, Southwest injected capital into ATA that (among other things) would have resulted in Southwest's 27.5% ownership stake