My first ever flight on Southwest was ONT-SMF, and it was out of the old pre-fab buildings.
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Joseph,
Take at the spreadsheets at airlinerlist.com. Among other things, it shows the dates each aircraft was delivered, previous operators, etc.
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04-06-2008
01:29 AM
4 Loves
ETOPS is more about procedures than the overwater flying. If Southwest wanted to prep for ETOPS, they could do it with their conventional transcon flights rather than the Florida flights. Since you need ETOPS certification before you can go overwater, this is pretty much the only way to do it.
Hawaiian was an interesting case, since they didn't have any reasonable non-overwater routes to prepare with the 767. What they did is use the DC-10 (not a twin, thus not subject to ETOPS restrictions) to prepare so that they were ready to go with 767 ETOPS flying shortly after they took delivery of their first 767.
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07-31-2007
03:08 AM
2 Loves
Good call on heading out to the runway at LAS hoping for the early release. Last weekend I flew from SAN to SFO on the airline where you can listen in on the ATC communications. SFO had a foggy morning and things had gotten badly backed up. We pushed off from the gate more or less on time and headed down to the runway, where we pulled off onto taxiway D to wait for release, pulling up behind the same airline's flight scheduled a half hour earlier. As we got there, a release came through for a third SFO flight, on another airline, that was still at the gate. With a wheels up time in three minutes. Obviously, that flight wasn't going to make it, so the ground controller got things switched around so the plane that had been waiting got out. We still had to wait about 45 minutes (engines off to save fuel), but ended up only about 10 minutes behind the other airline's flight.
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Apologies in advance if this makes Southwest sound too much like Skybus... ;)
Just one of over two hundred daily Southwest Airlines flights from Egypt, Paris, New York City, Monte Carlo, Venice, and Greece (all via McCarran International Airport).
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05-24-2007
02:56 AM
19 Loves
The res agents will appreciate this... as a result of my 9 month stint working at a travel agency call center, I still use "NN" for "need" when writing notes to myself.
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03-30-2007
05:25 PM
Drew,
Probably more often than we might think. There's a story making the rounds this morning about a 16 year old girl who was removed from a Newark to Honolulu flight (obviously, not a Southwest flight): http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/4674769.html
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02-21-2007
04:45 AM
3 Loves
TommyBlog,
Terminal 1 at LAX could be worse... it could be Terminal 3! It basically looks the same as it did when it served as Trans American's terminal at LAX in "Airplane!".
One of the issues at LAX is that many of the terminals are individually owned by their primary airline tenants. Some have invested in upgrades, while others have not.
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10-13-2006
08:00 AM
7 Loves
Phil, if the place you're talking about is the one in the non-secure part of the terminal, it's now GarduÃ
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