{"id":88527,"date":"2026-05-04T13:49:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T13:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/?p=88527"},"modified":"2026-05-04T13:49:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T13:49:10","slug":"southwest-airlines-moves-to-hire-a-former-spirit-pilot-after-its-sudden-shutdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/southwest-airlines-moves-to-hire-a-former-spirit-pilot-after-its-sudden-shutdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Southwest Airlines moves to hire a former Spirit pilot after its sudden shutdown."},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"95\">Southwest honors Captain John Jackson with a surprise tribute on the occasion of his retirement<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"97\" data-end=\"245\">Captain John Jackson\u2019s retirement flight with Spirit was canceled following its shutdown, forcing him to return home on a Southwest Airlines flight.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"247\" data-end=\"442\">With the help of the operations team, Southwest arranged a surprise farewell upon landing in Baltimore, where he was welcomed with a traditional water cannon salute and a celebration at the gate.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"444\" data-end=\"502\">Watch how Southwest helped make his special day memorable.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"504\" data-end=\"750\">United News Network \u2013 UNN Arabic<br data-start=\"536\" data-end=\"539\" \/>An independent media platform providing reliable news and objective analysis, aiming to promote peace and cultural dialogue around the world, convey the truth, and build bridges of understanding between peoples.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"752\" data-end=\"816\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">For more news, you can visit our homepage:<br data-start=\"794\" data-end=\"797\" \/><a class=\"decorated-link\" href=\"https:\/\/un-news.org\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\" data-start=\"797\" data-end=\"816\" data-is-last-node=\"\">https:\/\/un-news.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Southwest honors Captain John Jackson with a surprise tribute on the occasion of his retirement Captain John Jackson\u2019s retirement flight with Spirit was canceled following its shutdown, forcing him to return home on a Southwest Airlines flight. With the help of the operations team, Southwest arranged a surprise farewell upon landing in Baltimore, where he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":88528,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-88527","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88527"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88529,"href":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88527\/revisions\/88529"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/un-news.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}