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Sounds like a great way to complicate boarding, and lose SW's competitive advantage of short turnarounds.   It's not opening night at the opera, folks. It's a bus. ... View more

I have been flying from Florida to Philadelphia almost every month in the past year and have been very satisfied with the service on Southwest. I do not understand, however, why you do not permit small pets in underseat carriers. I was trying to earn free flights, but now, I can no longer use your airline as I have a toy poodle that has to travel with me when I plan to stay a few weeks. ... View more

I would really like to see Southwest fly out of RFD ( Rockford, IL) to Las Vegas and Phoenix. People come from afar to use this airport because of free parking and convenience. Is this a possibility? ... View more

And they let lady gaga on wearing bra, underwear and handcuffs. I'd sue the airlines until I had free flights for life. ... View more

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Southwest Airlines will never, ever come to Fresno. I'm trying to think negative. Expect the worst. Maybe a surprise. Someday. ... View more

Steven, Even though we're not hub-and-spoke, we, too put the majority of our Maintenance resources in what we call our "mega Stations" (i.e., the biggest ones). We do our heavy maintenance--and have hangars--in Dallas, Houston, Phoenix, and now Chicago Midway. However, we also have Southwest Maintenance Employees in a number of other large and medium size cities to do the overnight checks and just be there to fix minor mechanical issues. Those are located in Baltimore, Kansas City, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Nashville, Oakland, Orlando, Philadelphia, Sacramento, Salt Lake City, St. Louis, and Tampa. Overnight checks are pretty easy to route aicraft into, because (1) we don't do any overnight flying, (2) the cities listed above combined have about 50% of our aircraft overnighting there (260 total out of a total flying fleet of 500 aircraft), and the overnight "A" checks only have to be done once each 7 days. The more involved "B/C" checks take longer, and we have to build special routings into the schedule to allow Maintenance Control to easily get aircraft into those checks as needed, which is about once every 3 to 4 months. Thanks for the question! ... View more

Thank you soooooo much for this article. Turbulance is a huge fear for me, this helps tremendously. ... View more

I loved this. Its great to hear a pilots view and to know the joy they get out of their fantastic job. All the best. ... View more

Have you heard if Southwest will be going to the new Panama City, FL airport? ... View more