Southwest CEO offers insight on aviation trends

The pandemic has upended aviation in many ways, with demand moving from business to leisure travel and other challenges remaining, Southwest Airlines CEO Gary Kelly said in an interview. He also highlighted the US airline industry’s ambitious sustainability goals. “We have a commitment as an industry to be carbon neutral in 2050, and that can be done. It’s very audacious. It’s very ambitious. But just the fact that it’s possible, I think, is very exciting,” Kelly said.