{"id":2028,"date":"2005-12-20T04:15:32","date_gmt":"2005-12-20T04:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=2028"},"modified":"2005-12-20T04:15:32","modified_gmt":"2005-12-20T04:15:32","slug":"southwest_ceo_g","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=2028","title":{"rendered":"Southwest CEO Gary Kelly on Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/4536\/1880\/400\/wsjluv.jpg\"><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.emailthis.clickability.com\/et\/emailThis?clickMap=viewThis&#038;etMailToID=1013919064\">Susan Warren<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>But the 35-year-old airline is feeling its age, with labor costs rising along with expenses related to maintaining a fleet of more than 400 planes. As its fuel-hedging benefits begin to erode, Mr. Kelly must continue to tighten spending while maintaining the famous warm-and-fuzzy Southwest culture that has generated some of the most loyal employees in the industry. His ability to do that will be severely tested next year when Southwest must negotiate a new labor contract with its pilots union. The airline&#8217;s financial strength and its long, unbroken string of quarterly profits could make it harder to keep a lid on salaries and benefits.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Susan Warren: But the 35-year-old airline is feeling its age, with labor costs rising along with expenses related to maintaining a fleet of more than 400 planes. As its fuel-hedging benefits begin to erode, Mr. Kelly must continue to tighten spending while maintaining the famous warm-and-fuzzy Southwest culture that has generated some of the most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2028"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}