“Southwest Airlines” on The Daily Caller

NEW YORK (AP) — Southwest Airlines Co. said Tuesday that it ordered 208 new Boeing 737 aircraft with a value of nearly $19 billion. (more)

Former “The L Word” actress Leisha Hailey is asking travelers to boycott Southwest Airlines after she and her girlfriend were kicked off a Southwest flight for kissing. (more)

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A former New York City police officer was detained Sunday at Kansas City’s main airport after security screeners detected suspicious items inside his carry-on luggage, a local official with knowledge of the situation told The Associated Press. (more)

U.S. flight cancellations surpassed 2,400 as Delta Air Lines Inc. (DAL) and American Airlines joined JetBlue Airways Corp. (JBLU) in grounding planes ahead of Hurricane Irene’s East Coast landfall. (more)

(Reuters) – Low-fare carrier Southwest Airlines Co (LUV.N) plans radical changes for AirTran, the company it acquired in May, chief executive Gary Kelly said on Monday. (more)

PHOENIX (AP) — Federal aviation officials readied an order Monday for emergency inspections on 80 U.S.-registered Boeing 737 jetliners like the one on which a piece of fuselage tore open more than 30,000 feet above Arizona last week. (more)

PHOENIX (AP) — Flight attendants had just begun to take drink orders when the explosion rocked the cabin. (more)

For an upcoming three-day weekend, my 17-year-old son and I won’t think twice about hopping on a flight to visit family in Massachusetts. When I was my son’s age, such an excursion would have been an unthinkable luxury; air travel was reserved for businessmen and the wealthy. Alfred Kahn, the person arguably most responsible for the $100 round-trip fare that will make our weekend jaunt possible, died last week at the age of 93. (more)

Southwest Airlines (LUV) said Monday that it will buy smaller rival AirTran Airways (AAI) for $1.4 billion, in a merger of low-cost carriers whose impact will be felt from fares to the number of flights available to millions of passengers. (more)

A Chicago area father is suing Southwest Airlines, alleging his 14-year-old son was forced to sit next to a woman who allegedly made sexual advances toward the boy and offered him illegal drugs during a flight to Florida. (more)

An Arkansas coroner was investigating after a cargo shipment of 40 to 60 human heads was discovered by a Southwest Airlines employee, NBC DFW reported Thursday. (more)

The refund was nice. But what director Kevin Smith really wants is for someone from Southwest Airlines to acknowledge that he is not, in fact, too fat to fly. (more)