Will Southwest ever fly red eyes? Exec talks that and more in this Q&A

During one of the biggest commercial aviation events in recent memory, Adam Decaire was on spring break.

Decaire, vice president of network planning at Southwest Airlines Co. (NYSE: LUV), was relaxing with his family in Florida when the government grounded the 737 Max aircraft after its second crash in five months.

Decaire and his team quickly got to work and have spent nearly the past year remaking schedules to account for the lack of 737 Max planes in the airline’s fleet.

“If you had said,…