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Southwest Airlines was the nation’s best air carrier in 2020, a year when the COVID-19 pandemic upended the way people travel and forced airlines to make massive adjustments to keep flying, according to the annual Airline Quality Report from Wichita State University. The study ranks airlines based on federal data for on-time performance, bumped passengers, mishandled bags and complaints and noted that the industry as a whole was much more reliable based on the fact that passenger traffic decreased 60% in 2020 compared to the year before. All those numbers are available through the Bureau of...

Southwest Airlines was the nation’s best carrier in pandemic-stricken 2020, study says Southwest Airlines was the nation’s best carrier in pandemic-stricken 2020, study says American moved up to 7th best out of the nation’s 10 major airlines in the annual Airline Quality Report from Wichita State University. A Southwest Airlines flight taxis to the runway at Dallas Love Field on Thursday, Jan. 7, 2021, in Dallas. (Smiley N. Pool/The Dallas Morning News)(Smiley N. Pool / Staff Photographer) Southwest Airlines was the nation’s best air carrier in 2020, a year when the COVID-19 pandemic ...

American Airlines adding direct flights from DFW Airport to Syracuse, N.Y., and Columbus, Ga. Fort Worth-based American now has more flights on its schedule from DFW for August than it did two years ago, and more destinations, too. Planes from American Airlines outside of Terminal B at DFW International Airport, on Thursday, July 23, 2020. Ben Torres/Special Contributor(Ben Torres / Special Contributor) American Airlines will add direct flights from DFW International Airport to Syracuse, N.Y., and Columbus, Ga. — again showing how the carrier’s reliance on its biggest hub is paying off fo...

Pay dropped for American Airlines CEO Doug Parker in 2020, but pandemic pain is still to come Parker took an 8% cut in 2020, but because most compensation for top executives is given in stock awards, the pandemic-driven decreases will come in 2021. American Airlines CEO Doug Parker speaks after it was announced that the airport would be adding a new terminal during the annual state of the airport address at the Hyatt Regency DFW on Monday, May 20, 2019. The new terminal, named Terminal F, will add 24 gates and open as soon as 2025. (Smiley N. Pool/The Dallas Morning News)(Smiley N. Pool / Sta...

Flight attendant sues Southwest Airlines over husband’s COVID-19 death The 69-year-old flight attendant alleges she got the virus after attending a training meeting in July 2020. She recovered, but her husband died nearly a month later. A man looks out over a Southwest Airlines 737 parked at a gate at Houston Hobby Airport.(Smiley N. Pool / Staff Photographer) A Southwest Airlines flight attendant is suing the airline after her husband died of COVID-19 following a training session in which she says she caught the virus. Carol Madden, 69, said her airline “utterly failed to implement the m...