Federal contractor · DALLAS, TX

SOUTHWEST AIRLINES CO.

SOUTHWEST AIRLINES CO. received $105.7K in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 5 awards (−85% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $109M. Its largest customer was USTRANSCOM ($100.9K).

Obligations · FY2026
$105.7K
New awards
5
Sole-source
4.6%
Single offer
0.0%
UEI
TA21AQVF3977
Other than small business
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Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 22.5MFY2017
  2. 19.5MFY2018
  3. 6MFY2019
  4. 11.7MFY2020
  5. 25.9MFY2021
  6. 13.7MFY2022
  7. 7.6MFY2023
  8. 1.4MFY2024
  9. 703.2KFY2025
  10. 105.7KFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. USTRANSCOM$100.9K95%
    4 awards
  2. Department of Veterans Affairs$4,8194.6%
    1 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Transportation & logistics$100.9K95%
  2. Health & medical$4,8194.6%

Where the work was performed

  1. Philadelphia County, PA$66K62%
  2. Bell County, TX$33.4K32%
  3. Dallas County, TX$7,8197.4%

Integrity signals

Shares of the year's obligations, next to the country's.

  • Low competition4.6%
    US 39% · $4,819
  • Sole-source awards4.6%
    US 30% · $4,819
  • Single-offer competitions0.0%
    US 8.7% · $0
  • Urgency justifications0.0%
    US 5.1% · $0

A signal is a reason to look closer, not evidence of wrongdoing: most sole-source awards are lawful and justified.

Agencies awarding it sole-source contracts

  1. Department of Veterans Affairs$4,819
    Department of Veterans Affairs · 1 awards

Largest awards

  1. DOMESTIC CHARTER - AIR TRANSPORTATION SERVICES$66K
    USTRANSCOM· Philadelphia County, PA· Transportation & logistics· Dec 2, 2025 – Dec 2, 2025· HTC71126F1367
  2. DOMESTIC CHARTER - AIR TRANSPORTATION SERVICES$33.4K
    USTRANSCOM· Bell County, TX· Transportation & logistics· Oct 1, 2025 – Oct 1, 2025· HTC71126F1072
  3. NATIONAL VETERANS GOLDEN AGE GAMES - FLIGHTS$4,819
    Department of Veterans Affairs· Dallas County, TX· Health & medical· Aug 14, 2026 – Aug 14, 2026· 36C25026P0832
  4. CIVIL RESERVE AIR FLEET - AIR TRANSPORTATION SERVICES$3,000
    USTRANSCOM· Dallas County, TX· Transportation & logistics· Oct 1, 2025 – Oct 1, 2025· HTC71126F1038
  5. CIVIL RESERVE AIR FLEET - AIR TRANSPORTATION SERVICES$0
    USTRANSCOM· St. Clair County, IL· Transportation & logistics· Feb 27, 2024 – Mar 23, 2026· HTC71124F1812

Federal grants & assistance received

Grants, loans (counted at their subsidy cost), direct payments and insurance, by fiscal year of the action (USAspending.gov, FABS). Reported apart from contracts and never added to them.

SOUTHWEST AIRLINES CO. received $0 in federal assistance in FY2026, on 0 actions (0 new awards).

Assistance · FY2026
$0
New awards
0
Actions
0

Assistance by fiscal year

  1. 1.9BFY2021

Source: Federal financial assistance transactions (Financial Assistance Broker Submission) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 8, 2026, loaded Oct 8, 2026 · FY2021.

Competitors

Companies that win from the same buyers in the same markets: obligations by agency and industry compared over the last three fiscal years.

Compared on 2 markets (agency × industry), FY2024–FY2026.

  1. SKY LEASE I, INC$1.9M+94% in FY2026
    MIAMI, FL · 84% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveUSTRANSCOM · Nonscheduled air transportation
  2. AVELO AIRLINES, INC.$3.1M+77% in FY2026
    HOUSTON, TX · 99.8% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveUSTRANSCOM · Nonscheduled air transportation
  3. BREEZE AVIATION GROUP INC$1.6M+29% in FY2026
    SALT LAKE CITY, UT · 72% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveUSTRANSCOM · Nonscheduled air transportation

Showing the top 3 of 25 competitors. Open the profile for the full list.

Who sells to the same buyers in the same markets, not who wins against whom on a given contract. Prime contract obligations by the agency and NAICS code of each award; subawards are never added. A company is a family of legal entities, joined by parent UEI or, in part, by an AI reading of names.

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026 · FY2024–FY2026.

Lobbying and PAC activity

Organizations in House lobbying disclosures and FEC records whose names an AI judgment matched to this company. Those records carry no identifier shared with contracts, so every match is by name.

Matched organizations

  • SOUTHWEST AIRLINES COAI match · 100%
Lobbying · 2025
$1.5M
25 reports
Lobbying · 2023–2026
$4.8M
$4.7M in its own reports
PAC giving · 2026
$203K
1 PAC

Lobbying by year

  1. 2023$1.3M
    24 reports
  2. 2024$1.3M
    24 reports
  3. 2025$1.5M
    25 reports
  4. 2026$710K
    13 reports

Top issues

  1. Aviation, aircraft and airlines76 reports
  2. Budget and appropriations36 reports
  3. Taxation and the Internal Revenue Code32 reports
  4. Homeland security21 reports
  5. Banking14 reports
  6. Telecommunications2 reports
  7. Transportation2 reports
  8. Defense1 reports

Who was contacted

  1. U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES84 reports
  2. U.S. SENATE84 reports
  3. Transportation - Dept of (DOT)20 reports
  4. Homeland Security - Dept of (DHS)18 reports
  5. Office of Management & Budget (OMB)15 reports
  6. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)14 reports
  7. Transportation Security Administration (TSA)14 reports
  8. White House Office14 reports
  9. Treasury - Dept of12 reports
  10. Internal Revenue Service (IRS)11 reports

Houses of Congress and federal agencies the reports list as contacted (a report names every one for all its issues).

Lobbying firms hired

  1. Public Strategies Washington, Inc.$600K
    13 reports
  2. The Jerry Costello Group, LLC$560K
    14 reports
  3. O'Keeffe Shahmoradi Strategies, LLC$450K
    15 reports
  4. Squire Patton Boggs$430K
    6 reports
  5. The Mondello Group LLC$260K
    13 reports
  6. Kit Bond Strategies$260K
    9 reports
  7. S-3 Group$100K
    2 reports

Registrants who are individuals are counted, not named.

PAC giving to candidates by party, 2026 cycle

  1. Republican$108K53%
  2. Democratic$95K47%

PACs sponsored

  • SOUTHWEST AIRLINES CO. POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (SWAPAC)$461K raised this cycle

PACs these organizations sponsor (connected organizations in FEC records). A PAC gives employees' and members' voluntary contributions, not the company's own money.

Lobbying amounts are the filers' own good-faith estimates on quarterly LD-2 reports (the law asks for amounts rounded to $10,000; under $5,000 need not be itemized), latest amendment only. When an organization files its own report, it replaces what outside firms report for it that quarter. Matches are by name. Lobbying and political giving are legal and public: they show engagement with government, not influence over any award. Correlation is not influence: these organizations' lobbying and their contracts are shown side by side, and nothing here implies either affected the other.

Source: Lobbying disclosures (LD-1 registrations, LD-2 quarterly reports, LD-203 contribution reports) (Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026 · 2023–2026.

Source: Committees, candidates and committee contributions to candidates (Federal Election Commission), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026 · 2026, 2024, 2022.

Matches: Analisa AI name judgments (entity-match@1), updated Sep 30, 2026.

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026.