Southwest Airlines Co 8-K, filed Jul 9, 2024
Southwest Airlines Co (LUV)
8-K
2024-07-09
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About this 8-K
Southwest Airlines Co filed this 8-K on July 9, 2024, reporting on events of July 7, 2024.
Items reported
- Item 5.02: Director or officer change, or executive pay
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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM 8-K
CURRENT REPORT
Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of The Securities Exchange Act of 1934
Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): July 7, 2024
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Item 5.02 Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.
Item 5.02(d)
On July 7, 2024, the Board of Directors (the "Board") of Southwest Airlines Co. (the "Company") appointed Rakesh Gangwal as a member of the Board, effective July 7, 2024. Mr. Gangwal is the co-founder of India’s largest airline by fleet size and passengers carried, InterGlobe Aviation, known as IndiGo. Before co-founding IndiGo in 2006, Mr. Gangwal served as Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer of Worldspan Technologies, a provider of technology and information services to the travel and transportation industry. Prior to his time at Worldspan, Mr. Gangwal served as President and Chief Executive Officer of US Airways Group, and previously as its Chief Operating Officer. Mr. Gangwal previously served in executive roles at Air France and United Airlines.
Non-employee members of the Company’s Board, including Mr. Gangwal, currently receive the following compensation:
(i) an annual retainer fee for membership on the Board of $90,000 (which will be pro-rated for Mr. Gangwal for the July 2024-June 2025 service period);
(ii) $1,500 for each meeting of the Board or Committee attended in excess of regularly scheduled Board and Committee meetings;
(iii) while serving on the Board, free travel on Southwest Airlines for the Director, the Director's spouse, and the Director's children, as well as 50 one-way flight passes annually that may be used for free travel on Southwest Airlines on an unrestricted basis, and an additional 50 one-way flight passes annually for use by qualified charitable and 501(c)(3) organizations;
(iv) subsequent to Board service, (a) 50 one-way flight passes annually that may be used for free travel on Southwest Airlines on an unrestricted basis for a term equal to the number of years served; and (b) if the Director has served at least ten years, a lifetime privilege of 50 one-way flight passes annually that may be used for free travel on Southwest Airlines on an unrestricted basis;
(v) subsequent to Board service, (a) if the Director has served at least ten years, lifetime free travel on Southwest Airlines for the Director and the Director’s spouse; (b) if the Director has served less than ten years, free travel on Southwest Airlines for the Director and the Director’s spouse equal to the number of years served (“partial benefits”); and (c) if the Director is deceased, free travel on Southwest Airlines for the Director’s spouse for the lifetime of the spouse, if the Director has served as least ten years, or for the number of years remaining (if any) in the Director’s partial benefits, if the Director has served less than ten years;
(vi) eligibility to receive equity grants pursuant to the Southwest Airlines Co. Amended and Restated 2007 Equity Incentive Plan (for 2024, prior to Mr. Gangwal’s appointment to the Board, Board members received common stock awards with a grant date value of approximately $170,000); and
(vii) eligibility for a retirement payment under the Southwest Airlines Co. Severance Plan for Directors (which provides for a cash payment of $35,000 for non-employee Directors who have served
at least five years as of the date of retirement and $75,000 for non-employee Directors who have served at least ten years as of the date of retirement).
Mr. Gangwal has not yet been appointed to any Board committees, has no direct or indirect material interest in any transaction requiring disclosure under Item 404(a) of Regulation S-K, and is not a party to any arrangement or understanding with any other person pursuant to which he was selected as a director.
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
| SOUTHWEST AIRLINES CO. | ||||||||
| July 9, 2024 | By: | /s/ Tammy Romo | ||||||
| Tammy Romo | ||||||||
| Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer (Principal Financial and Accounting Officer) | ||||||||