Southwest Airlines Careers
Benefits - The Freedom to Make a Positive Difference
We’re not known as the LUV airline for nothing! Making a positive difference is part of what keeps our Culture alive. Employees are encouraged to Share the Spirit of Southwest through events like these:
- Spread the LUV: Southwest Employees filled our Headquarters lobby with donated jars of peanut butter and contributed $135,000 to food banks in 2007.
- Employee Catastrophic Fund: Employees have the option of making payroll deducted donations to this fund supporting our own Employees in times of trouble. In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Employees donated $543,300 to Fellow Employees in need. Since the start of the program in 1990, Employees have contributed over $9 million.
- LUV Classic Golf Tournaments: Southwest sponsors these annual golf tournaments in Dallas and Phoenix. Since the tradition started, Southwest has raised over $9.7 million for Ronald McDonald Houses.
- Adopt-A-Pilot: Many of our Pilots volunteer their time visiting fifth grade classes and corresponding with students throughout the year. The program allows students to see the importance of education in reaching personal goals. There are more than 650 Pilots, more than 850 classrooms, and more than 25,000 students involved in the 2008 program!
- Operation Phone Home: Southwest partnered with the USO and its OPERATION PHONE HOME program to provide phone cards for the troops. Through the USO website, Southwest Employees donated more than $50,000, which translates into a million units of call time for the troops!
- LUV Rations: In July 2007 Southwest Employees donated goods such as toiletries, socks, sunscreen, candy, and powdered drink mix at each of its 63 locations across the nation. The donated items were packaged into individual goodie bags with handwritten postcards inside for the soldiers. Since many of Southwest’s Employees have served, or are currently serving in the military, this project is close to home. Hundreds of Southwest Airlines Employees lined the runway gate near our Headquarters in a send-off for a U.S. Navy Cargo truck carrying the LUV Rations goodie bags for more than 1,000 U.S. troops overseas.
Southwest Airlines is an equal opportunity employer.
