{"id":202896,"date":"2025-04-20T10:00:16","date_gmt":"2025-04-20T00:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/5-ways-southwest-airlines-change-elliotts-influence\/"},"modified":"2025-04-20T10:00:16","modified_gmt":"2025-04-20T00:00:16","slug":"5-ways-southwest-airlines-has-changed-under-elliotts-influence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=202896","title":{"rendered":"5 Ways Southwest Airlines Has Changed Under Elliott&#8217;s Influence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past 12 months, American low-cost carrier         <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> has changed drastically. Everything from the way the airline interacts with customers to the perks it offers onboard to the routes it flies has changed completely. Around nine months ago, Southwest Airlines came under vocal public criticism from Elliott Management, an activist investment management firm that acquired a stake in the airline exceeding 10%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The carrier has changed dramatically.<\/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":[396,13240,1041,645,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-commercial-aviation","category-low-cost-carrier","category-southwest-airlines","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202896","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=202896"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":202897,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202896\/revisions\/202897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=202896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=202896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=202896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}