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Southwest Airlines Boeing 737s jets are seen March 13, 2019, near a hangar at Midway Airport in Chicago. The Dallas-based airline is urging employees to consider early retirement and long-term leave programs because of a lack of travel demand.

Southwest Airlines CEO: Passenger traffic must triple by end of year to avoid layoffs, furloughs

July 14, 2020 at 2:37 p.m.

Southwest Airlines CEO Gary Kelly says furloughs and layoffs are still a possibility for the carrier unless it can triple its number of passengers by the end of 2020. Kelly...

A Southwest Airlines plane taxis to the gate at Hobby Airport in Houston on Friday, March 20, 2020. The airline CEO Gary Kelly says the Dallas-based carrier plans to be flying to all of its international destinations by early 2021.

Southwest Airlines plans to return to all international destinations by early next year

July 10, 2020 at 3:41 p.m.

Southwest Airlines CEO Gary Kelly says the Dallas-based carrier plans to be flying to all of its international destinations by early 2021. In a video posted to Twitter, Kelly said...

FILE - In this Wednesday, June 24, 2020, file photo, Southwest airlines employee Oscar Gonzalez, right, assists a passenger at the ticket counter at Love Field in Dallas. In a report, Thursday, July 2, 2020, the government is recommending that travelers wear face coverings during air travel and says airlines should consider limiting capacity on planes to promote social distancing. But it stopped short of making new requirements. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez, File)

COVID-19 has affected air travel for nearly four months. The next four could shape it even more.

July 6, 2020 at 12:20 p.m.

During April's pandemic low point, passengers posted selfies on empty planes and airlines put unoccupied employees to work making face masks for co-workers. Executives talked about "survival" and the thousands...

Travelers wear masks as they wait June 16, 2020 at the American Airlines ticket counter in Terminal 3 at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago. The airline is reverting to an older strategy of serving international destinations primarily from a handful of U.S. hubs.

American Airlines to drop nearly two dozen international routes, including 4 from ORD

July 1, 2020 at 3:21 p.m.

American Airlines will permanently discontinue many of its international routes as it looks at depressed global flying levels through the summer of 2021. American said Wednesday that it's dropping nearly...

Apple Watch Series 5 devices are displayed in the Apple Marunouchi store on September 20, 2019 in Tokyo, Japan.

Tech review: Here’s a handy list of gifts and gadgets for Father’s Day

June 18, 2020 at 1:02 p.m.

Father's Day is June 21, so it's time to do some hard-core gift shopping. Not all dads are tech enthusiasts, of course. My dad uses an iPhone and an iPad,...

GAS LAMP PLAYERS|While you may not be able to <a href="https://www.theactivetimes.com/travel/new-york-celebrity-sightings">spot any celebrities in person</a> this summer, you can still video chat with them. Gas Lamp Players is offering three-week, virtual summer classes with theater industry professionals for $150. Enrollees can take classes in film and television acting, songwriting, character development and more.

Is it safe to go to the pool or beach during the coronavirus outbreak?

June 10, 2020 at 2:52 p.m.

With the summer heat already hitting, many people are looking forward to cooling off at the pool or the beach. Here's what the experts say you need to know to...

In this Tuesday, June 2, 2020 photo, a woman yells "Black Lives Matter," and "I Can't Breathe," as demonstrators kneel in front of the police barricade outside the Brockton Police Station in Brockton, Mass. The protesters were rallying against police brutality sparked by the death of George Floyd, a black man who died after being restrained by Minneapolis police officers on May 25. (Alyssa Stone/The Enterprise via AP)

Editorial: There is something you can do in response to George Floyd’s death: Open a conversation about race

June 3, 2020 at 10:19 a.m.

Everyone should be outraged at the death of George Floyd and should join us in asking hard questions and pushing for change. It should be clear that this country has...

Working from home isn’t enough: These employees can ‘work from wherever’

May 26, 2020 at 4:09 p.m.

DALLAS — Place is overrated, or at least the place of the workplace is overrated. That's the take from Calvin Carter, founder and CEO of Bottle Rocket, a local firm...

Southwest Airlines jets are seen March 13, 2019, at Midway Airport in Chicago. The airline's financial and network strategy may put it in a better than anticipated position to emerge from the pandemic.

Summer travel rebound? Southwest Airlines adding more flights in June.

May 20, 2020 at 10:57 a.m.

Southwest Airlines is adding more flights in June and says it expects passengers to start coming back after more than two months of the COVID-19 pandemic decimating the aviation industry....

American Airlines jets are parked at gates March 25, 2020, at Sky Harbor International Airport in Phoenix. The airline is running a 29-mile flight between Vail and Aspen, Colorado, the shortest route it's flown since the 1990s.

Why has American Airlines added a 29-mile flight? Your tax dollars at work.

May 19, 2020 at 8:57 a.m.

American Airlines has added a 29-mile flight to its schedule between airports that serve the ski communities of Vail and Aspen, Colorado — a route created to fulfill the requirements...

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