I am a pilot for SouthWest airlines. They are a major U.S. airline located in Dallas, Texas.
Yes I have flown with them before.
It was established in 1967 by a guy named Herb Kelleher and it used to be named Air Southwest but later in 1971 it was renamed Southwest Airlines.
I thought it was older than that.
Nope. :) We employ more than 55,000 employees and we operate over 4,000 departures a day on peak season.
That is a lot of flights!
Yeah! And as of 2014 we carried the most passengers of any U.S. airline!
Yes, Southwest is definitely an airline I hear a lot about, good and bad.