Southwest Airlines Chief Executive Gary Kelly speaks at the annual shareholders meeting at their Dallas headquarters, Wednesday, May. 20, 2009. Kelly said that traffic so far in May is "very soft'" and he blamed the swine flu outbreak that made some travelers nervous about getting on a plane. AP Photo logo AP Photo 5 months ago

Southwest Airlines Chief Executive Gary Kelly speaks at the annual shareholders meeting at their Dallas headquarters, Wednesday, May. 20, 2009. Kelly said that traffic so far in May is "very soft'" and he blamed the swine flu outbreak that made some travelers nervous about getting on a plane.

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  1. FILE - In this May 16, 2008 file photo, Southwest Airlines jets are seen at Baltimore Washington International Airport in Linthicum, Md. Southwest Airlines Co. faces a deadline Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2009, for settling a dispute with regulators over the use of unapproved parts on more than 80 planes.
  2. A Southwest Airlines 737 takes off from Midway Airport, Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2009 in Chicago. Southwest Airlines Co. is facing a Tuesday deadline to settle a dispute with regulators over the use of unapproved parts.
  3. A Southwest Airlines 737 takes off from Midway Airport, Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2009 in Chicago. Southwest Airlines Co. is facing a Tuesday deadline to settle a dispute with regulators over the use of unapproved parts.
  4. FILE - In this May 16, 2008 file photo, Southwest Airlines jets are seen at Baltimore Washington International Airport in Baltimore, Md. Southwest Airlines Co. faces a deadline Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2009, for settling a dispute with regulators over the use of unapproved parts on more than 80 planes.
  5. In this Oct. 9, 2009 photo, Public Relations Coordinator Christi Day is shown monitoring Southwest Airlines social networking sites at there headquarters in Dallas.
  6. In this Oct. 9, 2009 photo, a Southwest Airlines social networking site is shown on a personal digital assistant at there headquarters in Dallas.
  7. In this Oct. 9, 2009 photo, Public Relations Coordinator Christi Day is shown monitoring Southwest Airlines social networking sites at their headquarters in Dallas.
  8. FILE - In this Jan. 16, 2006 file photo, the tail of their plane appears outside the window as passengers line up to board their Southwest Airlines flight to Tulsa from Lambert-St. Louis International Airport in St. Louis, Mo. The Dallas-based discount carrier said Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2009, that for an extra $10 each way Southwest passengers can automatically reserve a boarding position prior to general check-in.
  9. FILE - In this Jan. 16, 2006 file photo, the tail of their plane appears outside the window as passengers line up to board their Southwest Airlines flight to Tulsa from Lambert-St. Louis International Airport in St. Louis, Mo. The Dallas-based discount carrier said Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2009, that for an extra $10 each way Southwest passengers can automatically reserve a boarding position prior to general check-in.
  10. FILE - In this Sept. 1, 2009 file photo, a Southwest Airlines 737 takes off from Midway Airport in Chicago. Southwest said Thursday, Oct. 15, 2009, it lost $16 million in the third quarter because of fuel hedges and an early retirement program.
  11. FILE - In this July 19, 2005 file photo, a JetBlue Airbus flies over a pair of Southwest Airlines' jets from Bob Hope Airport in Burbank, Calif., bound for New York's JFK airport. After years of following similar game plans to lure passengers with fares that are a cut below and customer service that's a cut above, JetBlue and Southwest are going head-to-head in major Northeast markets.

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  4. Dominos are toppled at the Brandenburg Gate along the former route of the wall in Berlin on November 9, 2009, as part of the celebrations marking the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Some 1,000 giant dominos, many of them decorated by schoolchildren, will be toppled during the official ceremony in Berlin on November 9, 2009, the day of the commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the fall of the wall.
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  7. A little refugee boy gets ready to take a shower at a temporary shelter set at Polideportivo sport complex in San Vicente, some 80 Km east of San Salvador, on November 10, 2009. Rescue workers combed through mud, rubble and debris in search of survivors from raging floods and landslides that killed at least 136 people, after a late-season hurricane devastated swaths of Central America.
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  9. WOOTTON BASSETT, ENGLAND - NOVEMBER 10: Friends and family react as the hearses carrying the coffins of six dead soldiers pass mourners lining the High Street on November 10, 2009 in Wootton Bassett, England. Warrant Officer Darren Chant 40, Sergeant Matthew Telford 37, Guardsman James Major 18, of the 1st Battalion The Grenadier Guards, Acting Corporal Steven Boote 22 and Corporal Nicholas Webster-Smith, both of the Royal Military Police, were all killed as a result of gunshot wounds sustained in an attack at a police checkpoint in the Nad e-Ali district of Helmand province, Afghanistan on Tuesday 3 November 2009. Serjeant Phillip Scott, from 3rd Battalion The Rifles killed on Thursday 5 November 2009, was also amongst those repatriated today.
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  11. CEO of General Motors Co. Fritz Henderson receives an earphone as he is prepared for a TV interview at the Opel headquarter in Ruesselsheim, central Germany, Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2009, after talks with representatives of the Opel company's employees council. Henderson since Monday met with leaders of its Opel unit to discuss the European subsidiary's automaker's future, a week after GM abruptly decided to keep it instead of selling a majority stake.
  12. A Palestinian boy touches a mural of the late leader Yasser Arafat, in Gaza City, Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2009. Palestinians mark the fifth anniversary of Arafat's death. Arafat died Nov. 11, 2004, in a Paris hospital at age 75. Writing in Arabic reads "In Jerusalem - who is in Jerusalem - I only see you".
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