Southwest Airlines

Southwest Airlines

Undergraduate (3rd and 4th year)

10 pages

Discipline:        Law

Type of service:           Research Paper

Paper format:   APA

Number of sources:     7 sources

Paper details:

Research paper Instructions

This course requires each student to submit a ten to twelve page (including cover page and references) research paper. The paper will be double-spaced and written in APA format. The paper will be written on one of the topics identified in the course materials on Canvas. Each student should identify current issues, regulations and practices & address related legal considerations on their chosen topic, using proper legal terminology throughout. Each student must cite at least five references, one of which can be the course textbook, if applicable. A student may propose an alternative topic for approval by your instructor. Any student who proposes an alternate topic must demonstrate that their paper will address at least four of the course Learning Outcomes listed in the Course Syllabus and that it will require the same level of inquiry and legal analysis as the identified paper topics.

I select Southwest Airlines

  1. Select a specific commercial airline headquartered anywhere in the world, then:
  2. Describe the airline, its aircraft fleet, route structure and number of employees.
  3. Determine whether the airline is organized as a corporation with private ownership or is owned by the national government.
  4. Identify the governmental agency or authority responsible for regulation of the safety of the airline’s flight operations in its home nation.
  5. Describe the certification requirements, including minimum flight time, if any, for commercial airline flight deck crewmembers in the airline’s home nation.
  6. Identify the governmental agency or authority, if any, empowered to regulate the routes flown, rates charged, and other economic aspects of the airline’s flight operations.
  7. Determine the extent to which the airline’s fleet consists of owned vs. leased aircraft.
  8. Identify & describe all accidents involving an aircraft operated by that airline since 1/01/2000, including the probable cause of each.
  9. Determine whether the airline’s pilots and maintenance personnel based in the airline’s home nation are represented by a labor union or unions and identify and describe any strike activity that may have disrupted airline operations since 1/01/2000.

i. If neither the airline’s pilots nor its maintenance personnel are represented by a labor union or unions, discern whether a law of the airline’s home nation accounts for that and, if so, briefly describe that law.