This story reminds me of the time I was travelling to Yellowstone : a whirlwind 3 day tour including an overnight drive on Day 1 from Salt Lake City, after catching the last plane in. However, my plane out of Philly was late, and i was doomed to miss my connection in Las Vegas to Salt Lake City. SWA held the last flight out of Las Vegas to Salt Lake City for 1.5 hrs, to accomodate the 6 passengers. If I hadn't made that flight, I'd probably just have gone back rather than waste the entire trip travelling.
I was not so lucky travelling Delta this time, a tight connect at Atlanta where the doors closed a couple of minutes before I arrived (I had asked on the ground and in the air to notify the gate, which Delta claimed they "did not do"). I spent a weekend sulking in Paris, instead of enjoying the fjords in Norway.
SWA is the best airline in the US by a distance !
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