Southwest Airlines passengers are making their final boarding-time scrambles for seats as the carrier prepares to end its signature open-seating system.

Southwest Airlines will replace several members of its board with candidates pushed by Elliott Investment Management to end a monthslong fight with the hedge fund.

Southwest Airlines executives have unveiled their vision for turning the carrier into an airline that gives passengers assigned seats, charges them extra for more legroom and offers red-eye flights but bags still fly free.

Southwest Airlines will revamp its board and the chairman will retire next year, but it intends to stick with CEO Robert Jordan.

Southwest Airlines plans to drop the open-boarding system it has used for more than 50 years and will start assigning passengers to seats, just like all the other big airlines.

The CEO of Southwest Airlines says he is not resigning in the face of pressure from a hedge fund that wants him fired.

Activist shareholder Elliott Investment Management has taken a $1.9 billion stake in Southwest Airlines and wants to get rid of the CEO.

Get ready for changes in boarding and seating at Southwest Airlines.

Southwest Airlines earned $193 million in the third quarter, 30% less than its profit a year ago.

Southwest Airlines is reporting a $683 million profit for the second quarter, and revenue is a quarterly record as planes are packed during the peak summer travel season.

The CEO of Southwest Airlines is seeing his compensation nearly double after getting promoted to the top job, with the airline's directors looking past a meltdown over the Christmas holiday.

The federal government is investigating whether Southwest Airlines knowingly scheduling more flights than it could handle in December, when it ended up canceling nearly 17,000 flights.

With its flights running on a roughly normal schedule, Southwest Airlines is now turning its attention to repairing its damaged reputation after it canceled 15,000 flights around Christmas and left holiday travelers stranded.

Southwest Airlines is returning to a relatively normal flight schedule as the focus shifts to making things right with what could be well more than a million passengers who missed family connections or flights home during the holidays, and many of whom are still missing luggage.

Southwest Airlines expects to return to normal operations this week after slashing about two-thirds of its schedule in recent days.

Southwest Airlines is reporting higher profit and record revenue, but its shares are down because of concern over rising costs.

Southwest Airlines is reporting a loss of $278 million in the first quarter but says it will be profitable the rest of 2022.

Pilots at Southwest Airlines say fatigue from poor scheduling is a growing problem and is raising safety concerns.

In a few weeks, Robert Jordan will become the chief executive of Southwest Airlines, replacing Gary Kelly, the longest-serving CEO among major U.S. carriers.

American Airlines CEO Doug Parker will retire next March and be replaced by the airline's current president, Robert Isom.

A Michigan school leader says a third party will investigate events at Oxford High School leading up to a school shooting that left four students dead and six other students and a teacher wounded.

A Michigan school leader says a third party will investigate events at Oxford High School leading up to a school shooting that left four students dead and six other students and a teacher wounded.

Tourism businesses that were just finding their footing after nearly two years of devastation wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic are being rattled again as countries throw up new barriers to travel in an effort to contain the omicron variant.

Rosamund Pike is already starring in the Amazon Prime Video based on Robert Jordan’s “The Wheel of Time" books.

The president of Southwest is retiring three months after being passed over for the CEO's job.

Southwest Airlines says it will raise minimum pay to $15 an hour for about 7,000 employees.

Change is coming in the leadership of Southwest Airlines.