08-22-2011
09:33 PM
3 Loves
1. ATL to AUS nonstop. I've been waiting for this for 1-1/2 decades!
2. The link to the ATL route map goes somewhere else.
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I love the Air Florida one. Cool. I grew up in Tampa and was sad to see "Palm" go. Glad one of their birds found a good home in Texas. 🙂
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I am glad to see Southwest talking about the situation. So many companies be it an airline or other industry would act like nothing happened.
As someone who is built like a broomstick I do appreciate Southwest's concern for everyone's comfort. One of the biggest bonuses of flying Southwest is the open seating. Depending of course on how full the flight is I do have some say in who I share a row with. And this works both ways. I can avoid someone I might not want to sit next to. Or I can seek people out. Turns out a small group of us were traveling from AUS to MHT via BNA all independently. This was back in the day of the backwards-facing seats. We all made sure to sit together on the second plane because we had so much fun during the first. We couldn't have easily done that on another airline.
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09-21-2009
04:49 PM
22 Loves
Reminds me of the very first time I flew Southwest.
We were in the process of moving from Florida to Texas. I was scheduled to fly back for Christmas. An ice storm hit Austin. I showed up at the old Austin Mueller Airport and it looked like a scene from the evening news. People were already lying on the floor, the entire terminal was full of stranded travelers. I had heard from other passengers the deicing equipment was broken and nothing was getting in or out of Austin that night. Great.
I went to the gate and asked. She assured me that while the airport's deicing equipment was down, Southwest had their own. She typed in my flight number and said that since my plane was coming in from a warm weather city (PHX) and going to a warm weather city (MCO) my flight was on time. And guess what, it was. I swear it was the only plane to come and go on time that evening.
Today the only time I don't fly Southwest is when I'm flying to Atlanta (hint, hint).
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