Fun Facts

Here are a few fun facts I found on the company's website:

*Southwest received 199,200 resumes and hired 3,350 new Employees in 2008.

*In 2008 Southwest served 55.2 million cans of soda, juices, and water; 12.4 million alcoholic beverages; 9.8 million bags of pretzels; 90.8 million bags of peanuts; 9 million snack boxes; and 32 million other snacks.

*Southwest consumed approximately 1.5 BILLION gallons of jet fuel in 2008.

*In 2008, Southwest moved 225 million pounds of cargo.

*The shortest daily Southwest flight is between Ft. Myers (RSW) and Orlando (MCO) (133 miles). The longest daily Southwest flight is between Baltimore (BWI) and San Diego (SAN) (2,295 miles).

*Southwest has 1,328 married couples. In other words, 2,656 Southwest Employees have spouses who also work for the Company.

*Southwest Airlines has consistently received the lowest ratio of complaints per passengers boarded of all Major U.S. carriers that have been reporting statistics to the Department of Transportation (DOT) since September 1987, which is when the DOT began tracking Customer Satisfaction statistics and publishing its Air Travel Consumer Report.

*The airline adopted the first profit-sharing plan in the U.S. airline industry in 1973. Through this plan and others, Employees own about eight percent of the Company stock.

*The airline is about 77 percent unionized.