Southwest Airlines' new plan to charge for checked bags may be good for other carriers, according to United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby.

It could be years before the airline industry fully recovers from the Covid-19 pandemic, outgoing Southwest CEO Gary Kelly says. But as he leaves his job, he believes Southwest's domestic route ...

Under Kelly, as Fortune chronicled recently, Southwest is looking more like its rivals. It is serving bigger airports—a change of course for an operation that flew past competitors for decades ...

Asked about the disruptive fares in a call with investors Thursday, CEO Gary Kelly basically discarded the concept, saying “There is huge value in offering our customers — 100 percent of them ...