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Southwest Airlines - photo wallpapers: Southwest Airlines made 315 flights into and out of Tucson on planes that regulators said were beyond required maintenance, federal data show.[br]As many as 52 local flights per month occurred between June 18, 2006, and March 23, 2007, on aircraft that the Federal Aviation Administration said went without mandatory inspections for structural damage.[br]Although the suspect planes accounted for, at most, 5 percent of Southwest's total flights here, the airline is Tucson International Airport's largest air carrier, with more than a dozen arrivals and departures daily. [br]The company heralded for having an enviable customer service rating, Southwest Airlines, found itself earlier this month in trouble for failing to conduct mandatory airplane inspections for structural damage.[br]Southwest Airlines was originally incorporated to serve three cities in Texas as Air Southwest on March 15, 1967, by Rollin King and Herb Kelleher. According to frequently-cited legend, King described the concept to Kelleher over dinner by drawing on a paper napkin a triangle symbolizing the routes.(Dallas, Houston, San Antonio). Some of the incumbent airlines of the time (Braniff, Trans-Texas, and Continental Airlines) initiated legal action, and thus began a three-year legal battle to keep Air Southwest on the ground. Air Southwest eventually prevailed in the Texas Supreme Court, which ultimately upheld Air Southwest's right to fly in Texas. The decision became final on December 7, 1970, when the U.S. Supreme Court declined to review the case without comment. That date is considered by many to be the de facto beginning of deregulation in the airline industry.[br]Southwest Airlines Co. (NYSE: LUV) is an American low-fare airline based in Dallas, Texas, with its largest focus city at Las Vegas' McCarran International Airport. It is the largest airline in the United States by number of passengers carried domestically per year and (as of December 31, 2007) also the largest airline in the world by number of passengers carried. It is also the 6th largest U.S. airline by revenue. It also maintains the fourth-largest fleet of aircraft among all of the world's commercial airlines (Tied 4th place with Northwest Airlines). Southwest Airlines has carried more customers than any other U.S. airline since August 2006 for combined domestic and international passengers according to the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics. Southwest Airlines is one of the world's most profitable airlines and in January 2008, posted a profit for the 35th consecutive year.[br]The FAA said March 6 it would fine Southwest $10.2 million for the safety violations on 46 aircraft that it said were flown after they were to be inspected for cracking on the fuselage. In particular, the FAA noted that Southwest kept operating those planes between March 15 and March 23, 2007, after the airline realized its maintenance lapse. In response, Southwest reinspected its aircraft this month and grounded 38 planes, some of which were on that list, Southwest spokeswoman Christi Day said. She said that "at no point was it an issue of safety for passengers." [br]

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