Sr Network Planning Analyst

Sr Network Planning Analyst

As a Sr Network Planning Analyst, you'll help shape the flight schedules that connect Southwest's Customers to the people and places that matter most. In this highly visible role, you'll lead changes to the flight schedule after it has been published and made available for Customers to book—balancing commercial opportunities, operational constraints, and Customer impact to maximize revenue, profitability, and network performance.

You'll evaluate complex scheduling decisions, identify opportunities to strengthen Southwest's competitive position, and collaborate across Network Planning, Revenue Management, Crew Planning, Ground Operations, and other Teams to deliver solutions that work for both the business and the operation. Beyond managing schedule changes, you'll help drive the future of Network Planning by developing analytical tools, dashboards, and optimization capabilities that support smarter, data‑driven decision making.

Through strategic thinking, technical expertise, and cross‑functional leadership, you'll play a direct role in how Southwest plans, adjusts, and operates its network every day.

Additional details

• The culture of Southwest Airlines means we value the camaraderie, collaboration, and innovation that occurs when we come together and interact face-to-face at our vibrant Corporate Campus. Due to the nature of this role, you would be required to work from our Dallas, TX Headquarters facility during business hours.
• U.S. citizenship or current authorization to work in the U.S. required and no current or future work authorization sponsorship available.

We're committed to fair hiring practices and to making employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, age, military or veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other legally protected characteristics.

Responsibilities

• Executes the revisions of the Southwest flight schedule through the production of high-quality inputs, managing constraints, identifying obstacles and recommending solutions, and ensures that all schedule initiatives are met
• Executes the process of gathering schedule change requests/inputs/constraints from other departments, such as Network Planning, Crew Planning, Ground Operations, Operational Performance and Revenue Management
• Executes the advanced execution of complex schedule changes including Demand Shaping, Available Fleet deployment, ASM adjustments, slot changes, etc.
• Ensures that all schedule parameters are met, including market frequencies, physical gates, staffed gates, connecting bank structures, minimum turn times, block times, tow times, gate assignments, etc.
• Evaluates commercial requests to determine the best way to achieve them without violating operational requirements and minimize the impact on already booked Customers
• Performs complex, highly visible flight schedule revisions with guidance
• Performs the highly visible and complex post-publication capacity changes including but not limited to demand shaping, available fleet deployment, ASM adjustments, international and domestic extra sections
• Functions at an advanced level in schedule editing
• Creates the checklist for each bi-weekly schedule revision to ensure that all revisions are documented and executed into all published schedules with zero defects
• Creates the final schedules in preparation for schedule publication
• Creates complex, highly visible flight schedule reporting in support of schedule revisions
• Evaluates commercial requests to determine the best way to achieve them without violating operational requirements and minimize the impact on already booked Customers
• Implements initiatives, improves processes and creates efficiencies to allow for quick turn schedule modifications
• May perform other job duties as directed by Employee's Leaders

Knowledge,

Skills and Abilities

• Knowledge of principles and methods for moving people or goods by air, rail, sea, or road, including the relative costs and benefits
• Knowledge of design techniques, tools, and principles involved in production of precision technical plans, blueprints, drawings, and…