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  • November 10, 2021

Post-Pandemic, Southwest Airlines Positions for Clearer Skies Ahead

How do you run a 50,000-employee airline after a pandemic eliminates 95% of your bookings virtually overnight? Airline industry legend Gary Kelly, Chair and CEO of Southwest, sits down with Morgan Stanley to tell the tale.

   

How do today’s most influential C-suite executives navigate a period of historic disruption, marked by a pandemic, tech innovation, rapidly evolving business models, trade tensions and the effects of geopolitics on global business?

In this ongoing series from Morgan Stanley Research, the firm’s equity analysts sit down with leaders at world-class global companies to answer these questions, unpacking broad foundational changes in sectors, industries and markets.

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