---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-25-023650"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "LUV"
cik: "0000092380"
company_name: "SOUTHWEST AIRLINES CO"
filed_at: "2025-02-10T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-27T00:44:09.632071+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Southwest Airlines appoints Tom Doxey as CFO effective March 10, 2025

## Summary
- Tom Doxey named EVP & CFO effective March 10, 2025, succeeding Tammy Romo.
- Doxey previously served as President of Breeze Airways and SVP Technical Operations at United Airlines.
- Compensation includes base salary of $575k, target cash incentive of $776k, and equity awards valued at ~$4M.
- Doxey led Breeze's transformation to profitability in under two years; managed $5B budget at United.
- Standard change-in-control agreement and $500k cash award with clawback provisions included.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-25-023650
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: LUV
- cik: 0000092380
- company_name: SOUTHWEST AIRLINES CO
- filed_at: 2025-02-10T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/92380/000119312525023650/0001193125-25-023650-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/92380/000119312525023650/d906464d8k.htm

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- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-25-023650
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-25-023650.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-25-023650.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Tammy Romo departed as Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer at SOUTHWEST AIRLINES CO.
  - Action: step down
  - Role: Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
  source text: Ms. Romo will step down from that role
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/92380/000119312525023650/0001193125-25-023650-index.htm
- Executive change
  Tom Doxey was elected as Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer at SOUTHWEST AIRLINES CO.
  - Action: elected
  - Role: Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
  source text: unanimously elected Tom Doxey to succeed Tammy Romo as Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/92380/000119312525023650/0001193125-25-023650-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.