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You're sooooo right, Captain Dave. I'll fight you for a window seat, because watching the beauty of the world slip past beneath you is the greatest in-flight entertainment there is. In Las Vegas, it costs $500 bucks for a helicopter ride over the Grand Canyon, but you guys include that for free! You also flew me over Meteor Crater once and saved me hours of driving. On a recent trip to Seattle, I told my son that he was a waste of a window seat, because he slept the whole way, while I saw the route that Lewis and Clark took, the Cascades Range AND the Space Needle. His reply? "Your trip was 4 hours; mine was 10 minutes". College kids... ... View more

I fly a lot. A LOT! More than many ATP pilots. The thing that I have noticed is that SWA pilots are the best at maneuvering through bad weather. Living in Chicago, I have had a lot of bad-weather approaches into tiny Midway and the men and women in the front seats pull off some remarkable landings. I'd rather fly the middle seat on Southwest than first class on United! ... View more