HillSignal
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SOUTHWEST AIRLINES CO

Its government footprint in one place: federal money, influence and market activity, each row linked to its source. Federal figures gathered Oct 26, 2026.

In plain words

The federal government obligated $106K in contracts to SOUTHWEST AIRLINES CO in the 12 months to Sep 2026, about 0.00% of its revenue over the same months. The most came from Department of Defense. It appears on 82 Senate lobbying filings from 2021 to 2026; 24 of the lobbyists on them once held government posts. In the last 12 months insiders sold 1 time ($4K) and bought 0 times ($0).

Written by fixed rules from the figures on this page. No opinion, no prediction.

Federal obligations, 12 months
$106K
0.00% of revenue (a guide, not a split)
See the money
Contracts ending in 18 months
0
None in our records
See the list
Lobbying filings
82
24 lobbyists held government posts
See who
Insider trades, 12 months
1 sold · 0 bought
Open-market buys and sells
See the trades

Government money
ⓘObligations: money an agency has formally committed to pay under a contract. Not the same as money already paid, and not revenue.

SEC revenue and federal obligations

SEC revenue, 12 months to Sep 30, 2026
$31.5B
10-Q, filed Oct 22, 2026
Federal contract obligations, same 12 months (Oct 2025 to Sep 2026)
$106K
Contract obligations vs revenue
0.00%
A guide, not a revenue split. Subcontracts and classified work are not included: see the note below.

The last months of this window may be incomplete: defense contracts reach USAspending up to 90 days after signing.

Contracts obligated, federal fiscal yearCompany revenue, its fiscal year ending in that year (10-K)
  • FY2026
    Oct 2025 to Sep 2026
    $106K
    $28.1B year to Dec 31, 2025
  • FY2025
    Oct 2024 to Sep 2025
    $703K
    $27.5B year to Dec 31, 2024
  • FY2024
    Oct 2023 to Sep 2024
    $1.4M
    $26.1B year to Dec 31, 2023
  • FY2023
    Oct 2022 to Sep 2023
    $7.6M
    Revenue for this year not on file
  • FY2022
    Oct 2021 to Sep 2022
    $13.7M
    Revenue for this year not on file
What these numbers are

Obligated means an agency committed the money to this company in that period (a signed contract action), as reported to USAspending. It is not a payment and not revenue: a contract can be funded for several years at once, and revenue is booked as the work is done. Some years can exceed revenue for that reason.

Prime contracts only, and only what is published. Work the company does as a subcontractor is not in these figures, and classified contracts are not published on USAspending at all. A low share can mean either. Contract values, ceilings and options are never added in.

Which units count: the USAspending recipient that is the company's SEC registrant; units of the company that USAspending's own records place under it (as parent, or in its family tree); and subsidiaries from the company's SEC Exhibit 21 that carry its name. Joint ventures, units now owned by someone else, and records that only share a name are held back. Both lists are below.

Earlier years count the units the company owns today. A unit we checked by hand (its USAspending parent is out of date) counts from the date the company bought it, or, where no filing gives that date, from the first date a filing shows the company owning it. Other units count for every year shown until their purchase dates are loaded.

Revenue bars are the company's own fiscal year from its 10-K, placed in the federal year it ends in; its fiscal year can end in a different month than the government's.

Fiscal year 2022 onward. Federal fiscal years run October to September; the company's own fiscal year may differ.

Units counted (2)

Top agencies, contracts obligated in FY2026

  • Department of Defense$101K
  • Department of Veterans Affairs$5K

Largest contracts active in the last 12 months

Amount: obligated to date on the contract, all years. Ranked by that amount among contracts with any action in the last 12 months. Counts only consolidated subsidiaries.

Contracts ending in the next 18 months

None in the contracts we hold for this company.

Amount: obligated to date. From the contracts in HillSignal's records tied to this ticker; the full list of contracts ending across government is on Recompetes.

Influence

Revolving door: 24 lobbyists on its filings held government posts

Every post as the lobbyist listed it on the company's Senate LDA filings, one per line.

  • Christa Fornarotto Lucaslast filed 2026 · 19 filings
    Southwest Airlines
    • Rep. Jerry Costello
  • Heideh Shahmoradilast filed 2026 · 12 filings
    O'Keeffe Shahmoradi Strategies, LLC
    • Staff Director, Senate Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee
  • Jerry Costellolast filed 2026 · 12 filings
    The Jerry Costello Group, LLC
    • U.S. House of Representatives
  • Rachel Blacklast filed 2026 · 11 filings
    Southwest Airlines
    • Reps. Tony Gonzalez, Mayra Flores, Andrew Clyde & Tom Graves
See all 24
  • Michael Ciamarralast filed 2026 · 11 filings
    Southwest Airlines
    • Sen. Susan Collins & Sen. Richard Shelby
  • Thomas S Andrewslast filed 2026 · 6 filings
    Squire Patton Boggs
    • 2009-2013:SA/LC and Sr SA, Rep. John Boehner
    • 2013-2015:SA to Speaker John Boehner
    • 2015-2018: Dir of Member Services, Speaker Paul Ryan
    • 2018- 2021: SA to President for Leg Affairs, White House
  • Bill Shusterlast filed 2026 · 6 filings
    Squire Patton Boggs
    • 2001-2019, Congressman, U.S. House of Representatives
  • Rebekah Sungalalast filed 2026 · 6 filings
    Squire Patton Boggs
    • Jan. 2018 - Jan. 2019: Leg. Assist., House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee
    • Sept. 2017-Jan. 2019: Scheduler/Executive Assistant
    • Congressman Bill Shuster
    • Nov. 2012-Aug. 2017: Sr. Field Rep., Congressman Bill Shuster
  • David Schnittgerlast filed 2026 · 6 filings
    Squire Patton Boggs
    • Dep. Chief of Staff, Speaker Boehner, 2006-2015
    • Press Secr., Rep. John Boehner 1994-2001
    • Communications Director, House Committee on Education and the Workforce 2001-2005
  • Naomi Walkerlast filed 2026 · 5 filings
    O'Keeffe Shahmoradi Strategies, LLC
    • Legislative Assistant, Rep. Steve Womack, Legislative Correspondent, Sen. James M. Inhofe
  • Malloy Mcdaniellast filed 2026 · 4 filings
    S-3 Group
    • Policy Advisor, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell
    • Whip Liaison, Senate Majority Whip Mitch McConnell
    • Floor Assistant, Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott
    • Cloakroom Assistant, Office of the Republican Secretary
  • John Scofieldlast filed 2026 · 4 filings
    S-3 Group
    • Dep Press Sec, US Sen Mark Hatfield
    • Press Sec, Rep. Frank LoBiondo
    • Comms Dir, House Approps
  • Matt Bravolast filed 2026 · 4 filings
    S-3 Group
    • Director of Floor Operations for Maj. Whip Steve Scalise
    • Prof Staff, E&C
    • Floor Asst to Maj. Leader Eric Cantor
  • Michael Longlast filed 2026 · 2 filings
    S-3 Group
    • Director of Member Services, Senior Advisor for SpeakerNancy Pelosi
    • Dep. Floor Director and Advisor, Dem Leader Nancy Pelosi
    • Special Asst and Staff Asst for Speaker Nancy Pelosi
  • Jose Ceballoslast filed 2026 · 2 filings
    S-3 Group
    • Senior Advisor to the Secretary, Dept of Transportation
    • Special Assistant to the Secretary, Dept of Transportation
    • Confidential Assistant, Office of the Secretary, Business Liaison, Dept of Commerce
  • Philip Moorelast filed 2025 · 23 filings
    Southwest Airlines
    • Senator John Boozman
  • Aaron Suntaglast filed 2025 · 10 filings
    Public Strategies Washington, Inc.
    • Senior Policy Advisor, Office of Senator Debbie Stabenow
  • Abbie Sorrendinolast filed 2025 · 10 filings
    Public Strategies Washington, Inc.
    • Chief of Staff, Office of Congressman Joe Morelle
  • Steven Eichenauerlast filed 2025 · 10 filings
    Public Strategies Washington, Inc.
    • Legislative Assistant, US Senator Jack Reed
  • Mark Copelandlast filed 2025 · 9 filings
    O'Keeffe Shahmoradi Strategies, LLC
    • Senior Policy Advisor, Senator Tammy Duckworth
    • Legislative Director, Congressman Mark DeSaulnier
    • and Legislative Director, Congressman Tim Bishop
  • Samantha Joy Faylast filed 2024 · 15 filings
    Southwest Airlines
    • Rep. Tim Ryan
  • Kenny Hulshoflast filed 2024 · 5 filings
    Kit Bond Strategies
    • U.S Congressman- Missouri District 9
  • Christopher Bondlast filed 2024 · 4 filings
    Kit Bond Strategies
    • United States Senator- Missouri
  • Chuck Brainlast filed 2023 · 1 filing
    Public Strategies Washington, Inc.
    • Asst. to the President, Dp. Chief of Staff W&M Cmte

Foreign agents (FARA)
ⓘFARA (Foreign Agents Registration Act): people who work in the US for a foreign government, party or company must register and report what they do and what they are paid.

Lobbying firms working for this company also represent these foreign principals. These are separate engagements: the firm's foreign work is not done for this company.

  • Squire Patton Boggs, LLPlobbied for this company to 2026

    Agents registered at this firm, not necessarily assigned to this specific client: Jacob Hochberg, Paul W Jones, Ludmilla Lydia Kasulke, David Schnittger, Gassan Baloul, Adam Franklin Hensel-Briscoe

Lobbying

82 filings, 2021 to 2026. Paid lobbying firms $2.3M. In-house lobbying spend $7.3M.

Firms: Kit Bond Strategies, O'Keeffe Shahmoradi Strategies, LLC, Public Strategies Washington, Inc., S-3 Group, Southwest Airlines, Squire Patton Boggs and 2 more

Issues: Aviation/Airlines/Airports, Banking, Budget/Appropriations, Defense, Homeland Security, Taxation/Internal Revenue Code, Telecommunications, Transportation

Contacted: House Of Representatives, Senate, Homeland Security, Dept Of (Dhs), Transportation, Dept Of (Dot), Office Of Management & Budget (Omb), White House Office, Federal Aviation Administration (Faa), Transportation Security Administration (Tsa)

From the company's Senate LDA filings. Firm fees and in-house spend are reported on different filings, so they are shown apart. Lobbying is legal and common; it shows what the company paid to be heard on, not what it got.

PAC giving

Southwest Airlines Co. Political Action Committee (Swapac)
  • Katherine M. Clark House, MA$8K
  • John Reed Senate, RI$5K
  • David Cheston Rouzer House, NC$3K
  • Julie Johnson House, TX$3K
  • Linda T. Sanchez House, CA$2K
  • John Boozman Senate, AR$2K
  • Michael McCaul House, TX$2K
  • Max Miller House, OH$1K

The company's own PAC (linked by the connected organization on its FEC Form 1). Top candidates it gave to, all cycles we hold, from the candidates' own FEC reports; tracked candidates only, so not a complete total.

Market
ⓘA 10b5-1 plan is a trading schedule an insider sets up in advance, so sales under it say less about the insider’s view.

Insider trades

Bought, last 12 months
$0
0 trades
Sold, last 12 months
$4K
1 trade
Sells under a 10b5-1 plan
—
No sell filing with the plan box read yet; 1 not read yet
Largest trade
$4K
Sold by Atherton Lisa M, Apr 7, 2026

Open-market buys and sells from SEC Form 4 filings; grants and option exercises left out, and trades whose filed price failed our market check. A 10b5-1 plan is a trading schedule set in advance, so those sells say little about the insider's view. The plan box is on filings from April 2023 on.

Members of Congress who traded it

Fund holders with contract wins (13F)
ⓘ13F: a quarterly SEC filing in which large investment managers list the US stocks they hold, filed up to 45 days after the quarter.

None found.

People and connections

Key people

  • Martinez Jimmy RyanPrincipal Accounting Officer
  • John Kevin EllzeyMember of CongressPilot
  • Liberty Jason TDirector
  • Krishna VarunDirector
  • Doxey TomEVP, Chief Financial Officer
  • Jordan Robert ECEO & President
  • Woods Lauren TauscherEVP & CIO
  • Roach AnthonyChief Customer & Brand Officer
  • Watterson Andrew MChief Operating Officer
  • Jones JustinEVP & Chief Commercial Officer
  • Reynolds Christopher PDirector
  • Feinberg SarahDirector

Connections

Connections to other companies, executives and members of Congress, from disclosed trades, shared officers and public filings, are part of Pro. See Pro

Activity

Every record that names this company by ticker, newest first: awards, bills, executive actions, SEC filings, news, private raises and patents.

Sources and limits

USAspending (prime contracts only; no subcontracts or classified work; defense contracts can arrive up to 90 days after signing), SEC EDGAR, Senate LDA, FEC, House and Senate disclosures, the Federal Register and the White House. Companies are tied to records by exact name, a verified alias or a subsidiary in the company's own Exhibit 21; a miss is better than a wrong link. A shared date is not proof of cause, and nothing here is investment advice.