The website for Southwest Airlines was experiencing problems for much of this morning and afternoon. Customers looking to check in via the website were met with the inability to do so. Although there are no official announcements that have been made, it appears as though Southwest Air was either working on upgrading their website or experiencing server related issues. It looks as though the website located at Southwest.com is now up and running fully.

In related news, Southwest Airlines announced yesterday that in the 3rd quarter of 2010, they had increased profits. Net income came in at $205 million, which is 27 cents per share. Last year in the same quarter, the company announced a loss of $16 million which was a loss of 2 cents per share. The operating revenue in the 3rd quarter was $3.19 billion which is a 20 percent increase over last year.

The company is still looking into acquiring AirTran.