Capital Punishment: Southwest's Digestion Challenge

By Daniel Joshua Rubin – Updated Apr 6, 2017 at 11:19AM

NYSE: LUV

Southwest Airlines

Market Cap

$19B

Today's Change

(3.16%) $1.02

Current Price

$33.48

Price as of June 6, 2025, 3:58 p.m. ET

A look at the lighter side of the recent airline merger.

In today's comic, Fool contributor Daniel Joshua Rubin takes on the Southwest Airlines' (NYSE: LUV) acquisition of AirTran Holdings (NYSE: AAI).

For analysis on the Southwest-AirTran merger, read more here:

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