{"id":124684,"date":"2024-09-11T14:11:12","date_gmt":"2024-09-11T04:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/southwest-airlines-garry-kelly-retires\/"},"modified":"2024-09-11T14:11:12","modified_gmt":"2024-09-11T04:11:12","slug":"southwest-airlines-announces-leadership-changes-following-activist-investor-pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=124684","title":{"rendered":"Southwest Airlines Announces Leadership Changes Following Activist Investor Pressure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dallas-based             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"44355\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/southwest-airlines\/\"  >Southwest Airlines<\/a><\/span> announced on Tuesday that its Executive Chairman and former CEO Gary Kelly will depart from the carrier next year after nearly four decades. It comes as the airline plans to <em>shake things up<\/em> as it deals with pressure for major changes from activist investor Elliot Investment Management.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The carriers Chairman, Gary Kelly, will retire next year after spending more than 15 years in the role.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,1839,1851,13240,4157,5617,645],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-ceo","category-chairman","category-commercial-aviation","category-leadership-changes","category-management","category-southwest-airlines"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=124684"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124685,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124684\/revisions\/124685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=124684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=124684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=124684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}