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Dallas, Texas-headquartered Southwest Airlines has opened its archetypal global innovation centre outside the United States, successful Hyderabad.
The office, which Telangana IT and Industries Minister D. Sridhar Babu inaugurated connected Wednesday (May 20, 2026), volition service arsenic a strategical hub wrong the company’s planetary network, supporting technology, engineering and endeavor capabilities.
Launched done subsidiary Southwest Airlines India, the Hyderabad installation volition standard to a headcount of 1,000 engineers and exertion professionals. In the ongoing archetypal signifier of hiring, the institution volition onboard 200 employees.
The centre volition beryllium driving capabilities crossed deeptech, AI/ML, information science, information analytics, integer engineering, cybersecurity, endeavor platforms, integer operations and next-generation merchandise development, Southwest, 1 of the largest airlines successful the U.S., said.
Mr. Sridhar Babu said, “Over the past twelvemonth alone, respective planetary enterprises person chosen Hyderabad for their archetypal innovation centres successful India, reinforcing the city’s increasing estimation arsenic a hub for precocious engineering and innovation. The determination of Southwest Airlines to found its planetary innovation centre further reflects Hyderabad’s strategical value successful shaping aboriginal of planetary mobility, aviation engineering, aerospace and next-generation exertion innovation.”
With global capableness centres (GCCs) and innovation hubs established by companies specified arsenic American Airlines, Marriott International and present Southwest Airlines, Hyderabad is steadily gathering a beardown aviation, travel, and hospitality innovation ecosystem, helium said successful a merchandise shared by his office.
Lauren Woods, enforcement vice president & main accusation officer, Southwest Airlines, said Hyderabad is 1 of the deepest analytics, engineering, and innovation endowment pools successful the world, making it an perfect determination for the company.
“Through our Hyderabad Office, we are gathering capabilities crossed AI, data, nextgeneration engineering and different concern operations,” planetary caput of innovation, India, Krishna Kallepalli said.
