02-15-2010
05:35 PM
The only reason to ever fly Southwest is if you are in a hurry and money is an issue. If my budget affords it, I fly almost any other airline other than Southwest.
As a few other people have posted already, if possible, I'd buy an extra seat as well. (I'm 5'8 and 185lbs... average size.) Mostly because the rest of the people on the airplane are so damned annoying. I'm a writer/artist and when I'm not dulling my senses on the plane with a couple whiskeys, I'm sketching or writing. Can't really do that when the old fart next to me is looking over my shoulder or asking me what I'm drawing or giving me their opinion on my work. "Ooh, that's scary-looking! You should draw a puppy!" Seriously, Granny? Bite me.
A while back on a flight back from Minn. on a different airline, me and my brother got royally screwed over, due to our flight being delayed from 10am to about 10pm. He had to go to work the next day and we had already turned in the rental car. No way we were staying at the airport for the rest of the day. We complained. For two hours. Some other passengers did as well. Eventually, we got bumped up to an earlier flight that connected in Denver on our way back to Phoenix. These new seats were also First Class on a different airline.
Moral of the story? Squeaky wheel gets the oil. If you get screwed over, complain until the situation is rectified. There's no reason a paying customer should have to put up with mediocrity from an airline.
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