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Southwest President and CEO Bob Jordan says research shows passengers “overwhelmingly prefer” an assigned-seat system. He also pledged to improve the airline's financial performance.

Passengers on a Southwest Airlines flight from St. Louis to Houston took turns craning their necks for a midair view of the total solar eclipse.

The airline offers a guaranteed look at the moon passing in front of the sun on a day when there’s a 50% chance of cloud cover in southern Illinois and Missouri.

Lambert’s relationship with Southwest Airlines has helped the airport reestablish passenger traffic after losing its TWA hub in the 2000s. That rebound now helps the airport drive 5.5% of the region’s gross domestic product.

St. Louisan John Gaal has called for airlines to stock the overdose-reversal drug naloxone after he used the spray to revive a person during a Southwest flight to Las Vegas in 2022. The airline now has announced that starting this year it will include naloxone in its on-air medical kits.

St. Louis Lambert International Airport is expecting an uptick in travelers this holiday season, compared to earlier in the pandemic. But overall traffic will still be down considerably from a year ago.

Updated Nov. 13 at 4:15 p.m. with comment from St. Louis Lambert International Airport — St. Louis City NAACP President Adolphus Pruitt said Tuesday the…

St. Louis Lambert International Airport doesn’t have the crowded terminals of a hub, but things have been looking up.Last year, nearly 14 million…

Business class will take on a whole new meaning when Southwest Airlines begins its first non-stop service from St. Louis to San Francisco on Tuesday.The…

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