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United Airlines
United Airlines traces its origins to 1926 as Varney Air Lines, one of the earliest U.S. airmail carriers, before growing through mergers into United Air Lines, and it became one of the largest airlines in the world across the 20th century. United was involved in one of the most consequential events in aviation security history when United Flight 175 and United Flight 93 were among the four aircraft hijacked in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, with United Flight 93's passengers' actions widely credited with preventing an intended attack on Washington, D.C. United merged with Continental Airlines in 2010, forming what was briefly the largest airline in the world by fleet size, and the combined carrier maintains one of the most extensive international route networks of any U.S. airline, particularly across the Pacific through its Chicago and San Francisco hubs. United Airlines's combination of its deep historical roots in early American airmail service and its extensive modern international route network has made it one of the most significant legacy carriers in aviation history.
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Southwest Airlines
Southwest Airlines was founded in 1967 by Herb Kelleher and Rollin King, reportedly conceived on a cocktail napkin sketch outlining a simple triangular route connecting Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio, and the airline began flights in 1971 built around a genuinely different low-cost business model. Southwest pioneered the point-to-point, single-aircraft-type low-cost carrier model in the United States, flying only Boeing 737 aircraft to simplify maintenance and training, and famously not assigning specific seats for decades, letting passengers choose seats upon boarding instead. Southwest built a distinctive company culture under Kelleher's leadership, emphasizing employee satisfaction and humor in customer service, and the airline maintained an unusually long streak of profitability across most of its operating history compared to numerous competitors that went through bankruptcy. Southwest Airlines's combination of its famous cocktail-napkin origin story and its pioneering low-cost, single-aircraft-type business model has made it one of the most influential and studied airlines in aviation business history.
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