The building opened on April 3, 2018.On August 16, 2019, Southwest announced an expansion of the LEAD Center to accommodate eight additional simulators for future operational and training demands.On January 10, 2017, Southwest announced changes to the company's executive leadership ranks with Thomas M. Nealon named as president and Michael G. Van de Ven named as the airline's chief operating officer.Southwest has been a major inspiration to other low-cost carriers, and its business model has been repeated many times around the world. Held at the now-demolished Southwest Airlines accidents and incidents include four deaths: one accidental passenger death inflight, two non-passenger deaths on the ground and one passenger death from injuries he sustained when subdued by other passengers while attempting to break into the cockpit of an aircraft. - The novel coronavirus has killed at least 464,423 people worldwide since the outbreak began in China last December, being Brazil Latin America's worsthit country with 49,976 deaths from 1,067,579 cases.

Southwest Airlines incident: One dead after engine 'explosion' forces emergency landing in Philadelphia. Kind of a typical landing.”Southwest released a statement acknowledging the emergency landing, and said they were working with passengers and crews regarding the incident.“We are aware that Southwest flight #1380 from New York La Guardia (LGA) to Dallas Love Field (DAL) has diverted to Philadelphia International Airport (PHL). Updated: 2020-05-09 21:06:21 GMT A Southwest Airlines Boeing 737-700, registration N401WN performing flight WN-1392 from Dallas Love,TX to Austin,TX (USA) with 53 passengers and 5 crew. "First there was an explosion, and then, almost immediately, the oxygen masks came down and probably within a matter of 10 seconds the engine hit a window and busted it wide open," Mr Martinez continued.Officials say that the descent — from the time of the initial failure west of Philadelphia until it landed at the airport, southeast of the city's downtown — happened in "a fairly rapid manner", and information provided by FlightRadar24 showed the plane dropped from 30,000 feet to 13,000 feet in five minutes. landed on Austin's runway 17R when the crew spotted a man on the runway and attempted to avoid the individual, the left engine however hit and killed the man. Tower instructed the next arrival on finals to go around. It is designed to be expanded to accommodate up to 26 simulator bays. China imposed a new national security law which has faced international condemnationA man smokes a pipe while wearing a face mask during a demonstration in Nantes, as part of a nationwide day of protests to demand better working conditions for health workers in FranceLawmakers from Taiwan's ruling Democratic Progressive Party scuffle with people from the main opposition Kuomintang party, who have been occupying the Legislature Yuan, in TaipeiProtester holds crosses during a demonstration in honour of the victims of coronavirus in front of Brazil's National CongressA demonstrator wearing a face mask holds a sign during a protest against police brutality and racial inequality in the aftermath of the death in Minneapolis police custody of George Floyd, at the Victory column in BerlinHygienists inside a decontamination area in a coronavirus treatment centre that cares for positive patients that show little or no symptoms in DakarA seagull snatches a croissant from a buffet during a press conference at the headquarters of AP Moeller - Maersk in Copenhagen, DenmarkA volunteer receives an injection from a medical worker during the country's first human clinical trial for a potential vaccine against coronavirus, at the Baragwanath hospital in Soweto, South AfricaSwiss acrobat Ramon Kathriner performs during the "Glacier 3000" Air show, an event marking the reopening of the Alpine facilities above Les DiableretsA worker cleans volcanic ash off the stupas at the Borobudur temple in Indonesia, a day after Mount Merapi erupted in nearby Sleman, sending a plume of ash into the skyAerial view of a burial at the Vila Formosa cemetery during the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on June 21, 2020.