Southwest Airlines Names Vice President of Strategic Planning

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May 07, 2012, 05:14 ET

DALLAS, May 7, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Southwest Airlines (NYSE: LUV) recently announced that Mike Delehant has been promoted to Vice President of Strategic Planning. In this position, Delehant is responsible for ensuring Southwest's strategies and business plans are always aligned and focused on meeting its objectives.

Delehant joined Southwest Airlines in 2002 and spent his first five years as a Leader in the Technology Department. He was promoted to Director of Strategic Planning in 2007, and to Senior Director of Strategic Planning in 2009. Prior to Southwest, Delehant was a principal consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Dallas.

Delehant received a B.S. in Psychology from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and an M.B.A. from Southern Methodist University.

Delehant succeeds previous Vice President of Strategic Planning, Kathleen Wayton, who recently became Southwest Airlines' Vice President of Technology, Commercial Portfolio.

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Southwest Airlines continues to differentiate itself from other low-fare carriers--offering a reliable product with exemplary Customer Service. Southwest Airlines is the nation's largest carrier in terms of originating domestic passengers boarded and has acquired AirTran Airways, now a wholly owned subsidiary of Southwest Airlines Co. Southwest serves 73 cities in 38 states and remains one of the most honored airlines in the world known for its commitment to the triple bottom line of Performance, People, and Planet. To read more about how Southwest is doing its part to be a good citizen, visit southwest.com/citizenship to read the Southwest Airlines One Report™. Based in Dallas, Southwest currently operates more than 3,300 flights a day and has nearly 39,000 Employees systemwide.

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