Southwest Airlines 2025 Annual Meeting. The board intends to appoint four new individuals to its panel of directors,. The new board will appoint a new independent chairman and will be reduced to 13 members as of southwest’s 2025 annual shareholder meeting.
The second largest shareholder of southwest airlines is calling for special meeting of shareholders to vote on its slate of eight new directors, which would represent a majority of. As part of the refresh, executive chairman gary kelly has announced his intention to voluntarily retire from the board and his executive chairman position, effective immediately.