Southwest Airlines CEO on Shutdown: ‘It’s a Crazy Way to Run Our Country’

Southwest Airlines CEO Gary Kelly isn't mincing words about the impact of a federal government shutdown on the aviation industry."It's a crazy way to run our country, absolutely absurd," Kelly told business news network CNBC in a interview Thursday about the company's quarterly financial results.Southwest said it lost out on $10 million to $15 million in sales this month because of the shutdown. Kelly told CNBC the shutdown could break the nation's aviation system."In our business, at least, we deal with the government in a very intimate way...," he said. "My hat is off to all the federal workers that are showing up. They are heroic. They shouldn't have to put up with this."  Continue reading...