Southwest Airlines
Southwest Airlines is the largest domestic air carrier in the United States by passengers boarded. Southwest operates nearly 800 aircraft in an all-Boeing 737 fleet. Despite offering some longer routes and a few perks for business travelers, the airline predominantly specializes in short-haul, leisure flights operated in a single, open-seating cabin configuration in a point-to-point network. In early 2026, Southwest will modify its cabins to offer some rows with extra legroom and will update its ticketing process and merchandising to offer assigned seats and more fare categories, including a basic economy class that will more directly compete with other airlines' offerings and appear for the first time in travel aggregators' search results.www.southwest.com
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Sep 16, 2026
John PhillipsHOST
What are you doing with those planners?"
Randy WangHOST
[laughs] Let's not forget one of my favorite Katie drops Was her telling a story about she was on a Southwest flight to Sacramento, and she harassed everybody on the plane to vote for her.
Randy WangHOST
[laughs]
John PhillipsHOST
Oh, by the way, if I'm on a plane where I see her trying to bust into the cockpit mid-flight, I'm taking that drink cart and using it as a battering ram.
Aaron KuhnHOST
Right
Tyler KiwalaHOST
... and let it land in, in the Southwest and you're-
Jorge PabonGUEST
Well, are you talking about, are you talking about major extraterrestrial cities? 'Cause the one I named was, uh, major.
Jorge PabonGUEST
Now when you get into the bases, um, s- the, the bases that they, they interact with, there's a lot of states there.
Steve CovinoHOST
You know
Rich DavisHOST
what counts, Danny? When you and I and Kavino walked on a Southwest flight and in row A, seat one was OJ Simpson.
Rich DavisHOST
I was saving that for Danny.
Rich DavisHOST
That was
Rich DavisHOST
Danny G.
Rich DavisHOST
You know what counts, Danny? When you and I and Kavino walked on a Southwest flight and in row A, seat one was OJ Simpson.
Rich DavisHOST
I was saving that for Danny.
Rich DavisHOST
That was
Jen KirkmanHOST
and he filmed all of them.
Jen KirkmanHOST
Some were make an announcement over the PA on a Southwest flight, ask Krispy Kreme for donuts arranged as Olympic rings, a product that they don't make.
Jen KirkmanHOST
The Krispy Kreme employee ended up doing this for him and gave it to him for free.
Jen KirkmanHOST
And then he made a video about it and it hit 5 million views.
Randy WangHOST
Let's not forget one of my favorite Katie drops.
Randy WangHOST
was her telling a story about she was on a Southwest flight to Sacramento and she harassed everybody on the plane to vote for her.
John PhillipsHOST
Oh, by the way, if I'm on a plane where I see her trying to bust into the cockpit mid-flight, I'm taking that drink cart and using it as a battering ram.
Katie PorterSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
To be about policy, and I don't think that's what the election ended up being about at all.
Lou PenroseHOST
I'll take half pay, and I'll only execute people up until about 1 o'clock in the afternoon so I can be back down to San Diego for the show.
Lou PenroseHOST
But I could execute everybody in the state and fly home on Southwest and be down here in time and could sleep like a baby at night.
Lou PenroseHOST
No problem.
Lou PenroseHOST
I have no problem extinguishing guilty life.
Jessica MendozaHOST
Spirit Airlines went under earlier this year.
Jessica MendozaHOST
Formerly beloved Southwest is facing headwinds.
Jessica MendozaHOST
Now, Frontier is trying to turn around its business before it's too late.
Jessica MendozaHOST
What happened to the budget airline?
Jessica MendozaHOST
Sure.
Alison SiderCORRESPONDENT
That they could join forces, and they would be, you know, an even bigger force to be reckoned with that could really challenge...
Alison SiderCORRESPONDENT
You know, the airline industry is dominated by four big airlines, you know, Delta, United, American, and Southwest, and that together they could be even more aggressive competitors.
Jessica MendozaHOST
With their powers combined.
CoreyHOST
We went from New Orleans to Atlanta and then turned around and went to Miami.
CoreyHOST
As it turns out, we took Southwest and we went to Orlando and then...
CoreyHOST
Atlanta.
CoreyHOST
At least that makes sense.
Daniel CourtwrightHOST
I told you that.
Daniel CourtwrightHOST
Are you just on a Southwest flight? We had a 13-hour flight from Helsinki, Finland to Dallas, and I didn't sleep at all on that flight.
Daniel CourtwrightHOST
I couldn't.
Sean KellermanHOST
I'm
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