Leslie Josephs
Southwest Airlines CEO Gary Kelly has tested positive for Covid-19, the company said Friday, according to Reuters.
The results came after a Senate hearing in which he and other airline chiefs and lawmakers weren’t wearing masks.
Kelly, along with the CEOs of
United Airlines and
American Airlines,
Delta Air Lines’ chief of operations, and the president of the country’s largest flight attendant union testified for more than three hours at the Senate Commerce Committee hearing Wednesday afternoon about $54 billion in federal payroll support airlines took to weather the pandemic.
Air travel demand collapsed when the pandemic began but has since recovered, mostly thanks to domestic leisure trips. Executives from Delta and United this week said they are gearing up
busy year-end holiday season, despite the spread of the omicron variant.