Almost one year ago, I made a post on this blog about things I didn’t know about Southwest Airlines until I actually started working here, one of them being that you can see just about all the most notable Dallas buildings and I included this picture of Texas Stadium. Well, as I’m sure all of you know by now, Texas Stadium met its end last Sunday (April 11) which means the view outside our southwest (and our Customers' Southwest) window has forever changed. Southwest Airlines and Texas Stadium are the same age. Up until April 11, the stadium was visible to our Passengers in and out of Dallas Love Field, but the implosion changed all of that. Here’s a picture that Bill Owen in Network Planning took from the same vantage point just a few days after the implosion. We will miss the old stadium.
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Any chance of getting Southwest luggage tags? I'm tired of using my old Deltas tags!
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11-26-2008
08:09 AM
359 Loves
Thanksgiving has always been my favorite holiday since it involves family, food, and football--all ranked in order of importance. But Thanksgiving has been a bit different for me as of late since I no longer have any living parents. So the dynamics have changed, but certainly not the meaning or significance, and I’m thankful for the many loving memories of Turkey Days of the past. This will be my second year missing out on my mother’s turkey, and my wife and I were lucky enough last year to have my sister (an exceptional cook) step in and cook Thanksgiving dinner for us. Now my sister is in college on the East Coast, and my wife and I are left to cook the turkey for ourselves for the very first time and start memories of our own. This should be an interesting experiment. I wanted to take the manly-man approach and fry the turkey, but my wife is more of a traditionalist (and even though she won’t admit it, she fears I’ll set the house on fire). This all lead to another first - I visited Butterball.com. It appears we are all set and have a pretty good turkey cooking battle plan laid out. This will be good practice before we actually have kids and people over for future Thanksgivings. In case the turkey burns our turns out like rubber, our backup plan includes frozen pizza.
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Keith,
What a great post and a wonderful example of the way the Culture of this Company and the Headquarters Building itself celebrates the Employees who work at Southwest Airlines! Indeed, the halls of HDQ are jam-packed with photographs, memorabilia and awards relating to the People and the history of SWA.
You might be interested to know that as part of our recent Customer Appreciation Week, when the Customer Relations Department focused on reminding ourselves who we serve, individual teams competed in an inter-departmental "scavenger hunt" inside the building. Armed with a two-page list of items to locate, with varying point values based on how obscure the item was, each team took off with a camera and a thirty-minute time limit. The teams ran down the halls, often to the cheers of Employees from other departments who only knew that we were up to some sort of Southwest FUN, using cellphones. personal observations and knowledge from more tenured team members to photograph each "find."
The game was fun, but beyond the enjoyment of it, the scavenger hunt reminded us that we are a Team, that by working together we can accomplish more, and that it is important to stay connected to our "roots" as a Company -- the People and the LUV that makes us Southwest Airlines!
Kim
Customer Relations Blog Boy
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