Southwest Airlines Community

Caption: Man, that sun is bright, is that seagull going to ... ... View more

How does the HUD help you when you have a gusty crosswind approach? You guys sure them look easy (at least the ones I saw today in Sacramento). ... View more

N255WN is now enroute left Boeing Field (BFI) at 1:16 Love Field Time for Sky Harbor ETA 3:40 PM Love Field Time. If you want to track it, it's flight 8500. ... View more

n255wn is on the scheduled departure board at BFI for Sky Harbor for today. Current ETD is Noon Love Field Time. ... View more

Sounds like a great trip. I have noticed that most of the delivery flights come to Phoenix. How do you guys pick who gets to go on those flights? I look forward to the blog about what happens to the plane to prepare it for service once it arrives at the delivery airport. How long does "New Plane Smell" last anyway? ... View more

I just read on dfw.com that you just bought a 737-700 aircraft from the Ford Motor Company, what tail number is this plane expected to get? ... View more

First Picture is Chicago and the second is Houston because Minute Maid Park is shown. ... View more

I read on another blog that N217JC and N216WR were the initials of two SWA maintenance personnel that were based in Phoenix that were killed in the plane crash in Georgia, Can you confirm this? ... View more

Shamu II and III was N501SW and N507SW but Southwest wanted the Shamus to have national exposure and the N500 series were the Boeing 737-500 series which are the shorter haul 122 passenger where today most of them run inside the Wright Amendment states. So they painted N501SW and N507SW canyon blue and made N713SW and N715SW Shamu II and III instead. ... View more

Here's is a list of special liverys and tail numbers associated with each Shamu I N334SW New Shamu II N713SW New Shamu III N715SW Lone Star One N352SW Arizona One N383SW California One N609SW Silver One N629SW Triple Crown One N647SW Nevada One N727SW New Mexico One N781WN Spirit One (First Canyon Blue aircraft) N793SA Maryland One N214WN Slam Dunk One N224WN 5000th 737 N230WN 2000th New Generation 737 N248WN ... View more

Hopefully guys won't lose too many flights out of Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach and hopefully you won't need to delay service for Jacksonville (Ernesto). ... View more

Is the "HUD" useable when you are on a westbound approach into Sky Harbor at 6:30 PM or does the sun's glare prevent it for being usable? ... View more

How does the optimizer factor in our wish list (example MSY-BHM) or other increased existing service? How does it affect the possible opening of Love to more cities directly (if the agreement passes)? ... View more

Got a chance to see "Slam Dunk One" and "Lone Star One" departing Sacramento on the 15th and "Lone Star One" and "Nevada One" departing Oakland on the 16th. It's great to see the special liverys doing the California routes this week. ... View more

So far the BUF-LAX plans have been having a decent day. The leg that was scheduled to arrive at 11:40 PDT arrived at 12:55 PDT. But 971and 961 (which were scheduled to arrive at 3:20 and 6:10 PM) arrived nearly on-time. 2537 from LAS is only running 30 minutes behind ( not bad for a LAS-LAX). 321 is probably having weather issues at MDW not terrorist related. As I write 2512 is running close to schedule. Not bad for the first day for the BUF-LAX plans. ... View more

Sadly, on July 31st, another reason for diversion made its presence known on board Flight 396 when two passengers couldn't control their temper on board. Those two people inconvienced not only the flight they were on, but potentially four others in Baltimore that their flight connected with. Can we get along for two hours (on average)? When you are on board an aircraft your business becomes our business if it effects us, think about it next time. Hopefully media coverage of the incident will get people to think about their actions on board in the future. ... View more

For the Penscola-Tallahassee-Mobile area of the country, would Dothan be a good place to serve this area of the country? ... View more

What's the reason why Little Rock to Nashville isn't served? Is there not enough interest in serving this route. Provided this route could solve some of the WA problems with the Eastern part of the country. Your thoughts? ... View more

To Greg and pberg, There are three departures scheduled before the first arrival so they will need three planes in place at the start of each day at IAD. ... View more

Do you know at what tail number the 500th plane will have? ... View more

It looks like the Federal Justice Department has decided to dig up the hatchet that the four parties buried. Unless something drastic happens, the deal's Dec 31st clause will kick in. My opinion is that the deal is already dead and we should restart and redouble the "Set Love Free" effort. Please revise your "Repeal the Wright Amendment" efforts as though this deal no longer exists. ... View more

I don't think you are testing assigned seating the right way. If Southwest is the one DOING the assigning, I don't think anyone would be happy about this. I think you should halt the current test until you are ready for us to "select our seat" when we "check in online" approx. 24 hours in advance. Otherwise you are not truly doing a good test between assign v open seating. Or for some better yet, select the seat at booking. But I still prefer open seating. But do a fair comparsion between the two. Thank you for adding IAD. ... View more

I'm under the impression that Southwest had to really ask really nicely to get the gates (two) that they have. I'm under the impression that you can run about 7-11 flights per gate per day. So a lot of Southwest's future at an airport has to do with their ability to get gates. Can someone address the process about how gates change hands and or obtained? Can someone address how certain airports are slotted and others aren't and how the affects an airline's plan about whether to go into an airport or not? If you haven't made reservations for these new flights yet, you better, some flights have already been booked heavily that only two fare classes are left. I also noticed that the New York based low-cost carrier did not change their prices on connections that they fly into Dulles from other Southwest cities. ... View more

It finally dawned on me who is pressured most by the current system as is. It is the customer who is flying a short distance from a "focus" city. Las Vegas is your busiest (by number of LUV jets leaving each day) airport. But those who flying your 11:45 for Las Vegas to Sacramento are at a disadvantage to those are connecting with this flight. Passengers that are connecting from other cities are allowed to get their passes for this flight ahead of their Las Vegas colleagues because you are allowed to get both passes of connecting trip at the same time. In the case of this flight, the earliest group could log in at 4:20 AM Pacific Time and get there Manchester to Las Vegas and their Las Vegas to Sacramento boarding passes then. The bottom line is that this airline, which I love, had made a decision to give highest priority to "connecting customers". The longer the first leg (those an earlier time) the higher the priority. If this what Southwest had in mind then leave the online check-in process as is. But if you want to all your customer on the same playing field then consider allowing boarding pass pickup to begin at 6:00 AM Eastern Time on the day before the flight for all possible legs. The current issue has to do with when the seats are selected, allow me to pick my seat when I see it on the plane. Thanks. ... View more

It would get great if those who have their San Diego reservation for when the "test" is going to occur feel about their 1 in 8 chance of their flight changing from an open seat flight to an assigned seat flight. Also when will the seat diagram of the inside of the 737 aircraft going to appear somewhere on the main southwest.com website. Keep open seating. I'm also curious about those who are scheduled to change planes in San Diego where there first plane was open seating and the second was "assigned". Those people will get a chance to see both procedure in one trip and could give great feedback. ... View more

Congratulations on the delivery of N240WN earlier today. ... View more

I have a name for your two-legged (4:30) San Antonio to Amarillo that stops in Dallas "Amarillo by Morning" since this flight follows George Straits lyrics to a t. ... View more

Thanks Joe. ... View more

Nothing better than family. Loved this story. Just one request. One Non-stop from Oakland to Dulles when that service starts please. ... View more

Have you had a chance to read the new FAA guidelines regarding landing distance policies and if so, do you have a reaction? ... View more