Southwest Airlines Community

American Airlines employees are always available                                    ... View more

Wheels are excluded from the measurement.                                    ... View more

The most important thing you need to know about Southwest Airlines is that they stopped serving white zinfandel years ago.                                              ... View more

A passenger that is allergic to dogs is a pretty good point.  I'm not sure where the airlines stand on this.                                     Same as being allergic to peanuts? ... View more

SoCalFlyer97:  All of the work you put into your travel posts makes everyone here want to head to the airport!   I want to also thank Southwest for having a community message board with enough computer power to support all the photographs.  I'm not a techie, but I believe they do take up a lot of storage space.       ... View more

dfwskier:   I vaguely remember him saying a couple of years back that one U.S. airline would fail in the near future.  I'm glad it didn't happen. ... View more

Remember that old joke?   How do you make one million dollars?              Take one billion dollars and buy an airline. ... View more

Don't pound sand, that just brings the worm.                                  ... View more

  SoCal:  Your travel posts are absolutely the best.  Don't get carpal tunnel working too much on them.   Did the hotel free breakfast have a waffle maker?                               Can't wait for the next post.   Artanis out of TUS       ... View more

SoCal:  I forgot to say I hope you know how much everyone here appreciates the time and effort you put into assembling your great post along with all of the insightful comments.  We can see that it took a lot of time and effort on your part.  Thanks.                              Perhaps they can reassemble the stained glass ceiling in the new baseball park?   Artanis out of TUS     ... View more

SoCal:  Thanks for the great photos!                Brings back a lot of memories.   ... View more

I have a lot of sympathy for Southwest flight attendants when turbulence pre-empts cabin service and they have to make the entire flight buckled in.  Those fold down flight attendant seats don't look half as comfortable as the passenger seats.  I know I couldn't do it. ... View more

        The next time a gate agent does this, put the muscle on them.                                                                          Artanis, SW stockholder out of TUS     ... View more

SoCalFlyer97:  Thank you for the planetag link!           ... View more

Ironically, after flying all my life, I prefer open seating.   I've flown a lot of times with an assigned seat.  On occasion, I board the plane and there is somebody sitting in my seat.  I tell them they are in the wrong seat.  They get mad, check their boarding pass, check their phone, drag down their carry on from the overhead and go off to find their correct seat in a huff.  Sheesh, it makes you feel like you've done something wrong.   When I was younger, I always liked a window seat.  Just sit and watch the world go by below.  Now that I'm older, I prefer sitting toward the back of the plane in an aisle seat near the lavatory.  Yes, mother nature makes the rules.   With Southwest, I check in for the flight 24 hours before.  I always get the A group.  When the plane boards, I just wait and board with the C group, walk to the back of the plane and get an aisle seat.   On long flights, I do fly first class.  What a way to go. Bottomless champagne glass, hot towels, hot nuts, hot meal.  You get treated like royalty! ... View more

I'm inclined to agree with DancingDavidE.  An original part of the Southwest business model was fly one plane, train crew for one plane, maintain and repair one plane.  This has contributed to Southwest's success and profitability.   Even thinking about the 737 is not something Southwest should have to do anyway, it's a problem not of their creating.   It's kind of the old fork in the road.  What quality of planes would Airbus be making say 20 years from now?  It's like a problem with no solution. ... View more

Yeah, delivery delay is a problem.  I figure wet-lease one plane from ALC and fly with a type-certified pilot and first officer with a Southwest pilot in the jump seat taking notes.   On the flip side, some A321s come with Pratt & Whitney engines which have had problems.  Leap would be better.   But, we've seen companies go toxic over the years.  When Alan Mulally wasn't selected as CEO of Boeing and he went to Ford, I sold my Boeing stock.  You could see what was coming. ... View more