Company Watch - Southwest Airlines

Oct 16, 2006

Southwest Airlines promoted Senior VP-Enterprise Spend Management Bob Jordan to executive VP-strategy, procurement and technology and named Senior Management Committee and Executive Planning Committee member Ron Ricks as the new executive VP-law, airports and public affairs. Both will report to CEO Gary Kelly. It also promoted Chief Development Officer Jan Marshall to VP-technology and Chief Information Officer and Director of Application Architecture Kerry Schwab to VP and chief technology officer. It named Lori Rainwater the new VP-internal audit. Oct 12, 2006

Southwest's first-come, first-served seating may stay. An experiment this summer to decide whether Southwest Airlines should forgo its first-come, first-served seating policy yielded mixed results. "Some boarding methods were a little faster, most were a little slower," says Southwest CEO Gary Kelly. He says the airline will likely continue research and make a decision next year. Oct 9, 2006

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