Southwest Airlines Workers to Get Record Profit-Sharing.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)

From: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News | Date: March 28, 2000| Author: Reed, Dan | Copyright information

Mar. 28--Southwest Airlines' employees' legendary devotion to their company will pay off again, when the carrier doles out more than $138 million in profit-sharing to 25,119 workers this September.

The Dallas-based airline said yesterday that, based on the company's 1999 pretax profit, this year's profit-sharing payments will set several records.

The payout is a record. So too is the size of each employee's payout on a percentage basis. This year, those payou...

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