Reason #3,462 that Southwest is the ONLY way to fly!

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Posted: 2/14/08 at 3:16pm

"DALLAS — Southwest Airlines, with a raucous corporate culture that is the exception in the grim airline industry, stands to look even wilder as some of its big competitors contemplate mergers that would only further muddy their corporate identities.

Gary Kelly, 52, has risen from financial controller to chief executive and has loosened up about what he wears to work. His administrative assistant, Gillian Kelley, has seen it. She pitched in last year when he was too busy to shop for the size 14 women’s high heels he had been wanting.

“Some pretty embarrassing Web sites we had to sort through,” Ms. Kelley said. She pulled the whole outfit together. And she added, grimacing, “The most awkward thing — fitting your boss with prosthetic breasts.”

It had to be kept hush-hush, so that the 6-foot-3 Mr. Kelly could surprise the 2,400 workers at headquarters with his most outlandish Halloween outfit ever: Edna Turnblad, the bouffant mom from the musical “Hairspray.”"

And yes, there is a picture- Edna perched just outside the cockpit on a Southwest flight.
NY Times