Per CNBC and The New York Times
Southwest Airlines Trained and Hired 3,000 Flight Attendants Tripling Its 2008 Hiring Record Despite Pandemic
9/27/2022
Southwest Airlines has over 62,000 full-time equivalent employees after training and hiring 3,000 flight attendants. Pre-pandemic, the airlines only had 60,800 employees.
Under the $54 billion federal bailout terms, airlines were prohibited from laying off staff during the COVID pandemic. Southwest Airlines was expected to receive $3.2 billion of the bailout with $1 billion of it coming in the form of a low-interest loan.
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