Aviation History As long ago as 1884 a machine weighing 8,000 pounds demonstrated its power both to lift itself from the ground and to maintain a speed of from 30 to 40 miles per hour, but failed of success owing to the inability to balance and steer ...

Southwest Airlines Company History In 1971 from a sketch on a napkin Southwest Airlines was born with three boeing737 jets flying to three Texas cities. Kelleher and a group of investors had put up the 560,000 dollars to found the company. (Business Week 1989).The philosophy of the company w...

HOW IT ALL STARTED Southwest Airlines (SWA) begins in June 18, 1971, when SWA first operated a first airline consul between Houston, Dallas and San Antonio. Rollin King and Herb Kelleher are the founders of the company. The end of 1971 SWA immediately began to expand. In 1972 all Houston service ...