Southwest posts

by Sean McLachlan (RSS feed) (4 days ago)
Nov 16th, 2009 at 10:30AM: The Old West was a place where there were gunfights on every street, the bank got robbed every day, and every saloon was filled with girls dancing the can-can. Well, actually it wasn't, but that's the way it seems from the movies, and a lot of those movies were filmed at Old Tucson Studios. Located a short drive west of Tucson, Old Tucson Studios is the perfect place to film a Western. There's an ...

by Tom Johansmeyer (RSS feed) (17 days ago)
Nov 3rd, 2009 at 4:00PM:
Pamela Root, who was kicked off a Southwest Airlines flight Friday, will receive another chance to fly on the airline. She and her son were removed from a San Jose-bound plane when her two-year-old son wouldn't stop screaming "Go! Plane! Go!" and "I want Daddy!"
In addition to an apology, the airline gave her a refund and a travel voucher for $300. Root had hoped to be compensated for the ...

by Tom Johansmeyer (RSS feed) (20 days ago)
Oct 31st, 2009 at 1:00PM:
It's easy for passengers to grow annoyed with kids on planes. There's nothing worse than hearing a scream and knowing you're about to be part of a captive audience for several hours. Yet, flight crews usually show a lot more tolerance. Hey, they're on the plane to earn a paycheck. Every job has trials to be endured. Pamela Root's son, however, was too much for them.
Kid and mom were kicked ...

by Katie Hammel (RSS feed) (2 months ago)
Sep 12th, 2009 at 2:00PM: New Mexico's State Fair kicked off Friday and to celebrate, the Nativo Lodge is offering a special package. For $129 per night, families of up to four people will receive accommodations (with one king or two double beds), daily breakfast, four one-day passes to the Fair, and one parking pass.
The Nativo Lodge offers spacious rooms decorated with Native American touches. The property features a ...

by Scott Carmichael (RSS feed) (2 months ago)
Sep 12th, 2009 at 1:00PM: Southwest Airlines is once again in the news for its claimed mistreatment of a passenger of size. Trampus Adams and his wife were flying from Las Vegas back home to Portland when an airline staff member requested that his wife get off the plane to purchase a second ticket. The staff member had made the decision that she was unable to safely fit in one seat. The humiliation drove her to tears and ...

by Tom Johansmeyer (RSS feed) (2 months ago)
Sep 6th, 2009 at 8:00AM: Yes, you've heard about this all year, and you'll probably hear about it for a while to come. Airlines are still looking for ways to pull every dollar they can out of your wallets, but the reality is that they have no choice. Seven of the nine largest airlines in the United States had a rough time in August, making these measures more important than passengers might realize.
The second bag, ...

by Grant Martin (RSS feed) (2 months ago)
Sep 2nd, 2009 at 5:00PM:
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Nobody likes being the last person to board an airplane. In addition to zero overhead bin space that's left over, it's inevitable that the only seat left on the aircraft is in the back next to the lav between two enormous, smelly, sleeping wrestlers. Traditional ...

by Katie Hammel (RSS feed) (2 months ago)
Aug 31st, 2009 at 12:00PM: When most people think of going on a wine-tasting trip, their thoughts tend to head west - to California, Washington, and Oregon. It's not surprising. From Napa Valley in California to Walla Walla in Washington, these states are some of the biggest producers of wine in the US. But if you don't live in one of these states, there's no need to venture far from home for a weekend of swirling and ...

by Katie Hammel (RSS feed) (3 months ago)
Aug 22nd, 2009 at 2:00PM: To add to its cheap fares, no-extra-fees policy, and wise-cracking flight attendants, Southwest Airlines is giving us one more reason to love the low-cost carrier. Southwest says that, by the first quarter of 2010, wi-fi internet will be available on all flights.
Southwest and Row 44 have been testing the service on four planes since February of 2009. In a press release, Southwest Airlines' ...

by Tom Johansmeyer (RSS feed) (3 months ago)
Aug 21st, 2009 at 4:00PM: Social media means that airlines just have another place where they can be raked over the coals. We complain to ticket agents. We complain to gate agents. We complain to customer service reps. And now, we can complain to the world, thanks to the likes of Twitter. I, for example, follow @DeltaSucks, though there hasn't been any action on it in several months. I don't just listen, though. When I'm ...

by Tom Johansmeyer (RSS feed) (4 months ago)
Jul 14th, 2009 at 12:30PM: A Southwest Airlines 737 landed safely in West Virginia last night after a 1 foot by 1 foot hole opened in the fuselage. Passengers could actually see the sky through the gape. Cabin pressure dropped, and passengers put on their masks quickly. Nobody was injured.
The plane was flying from Nashville to Baltimore but diverted as a result of the hole. The pilot landed the plane, to the thanks, ...

by Grant Martin (RSS feed) (4 months ago)
Jul 8th, 2009 at 12:01AM: Usually, we at Gadling don't raise much fuss when an airline puts a few routes on sale. But Southwest really isn't an airline when it comes to fare pricing. They're a paradigm. When they drop fares, other airlines usually drop fares. As a result, shockwaves surge through the entire pricing network, travelers like you and I jump on tickets from any variety of carriers and everyone goes home happy. ...

by Tom Johansmeyer (RSS feed) (5 months ago)
Jun 23rd, 2009 at 5:00PM: Starting tomorrow, Southwest Airlines is going to start charging for internet access on four of its planes. The fees will range from $2 to $12, based on how long you're in the sky and how you connect. For the past few months, access has been free, but the lure of additional revenue must have been hard to resist.
Yep, another extra fee to add to the list ...
Both Delta Airlines and American ...

by Tom Johansmeyer (RSS feed) (6 months ago)
May 14th, 2009 at 12:00PM: The one thing nobody says about the "nickel and dime" strategy is that it can work. For the airline industry, charging passengers for extra bags translated to more than $1 billion in lifeblood to a struggling business last year, according to the Department of Transportation. As much as you may hate to shell out that extra cash, last year, it went to businesses that desperately needed it.
Before ...

by Tom Johansmeyer (RSS feed) (6 months ago)
May 9th, 2009 at 3:00PM: Passenger traffic is still falling. That's not going to change for a while. But, the decline slowed in April, signaling that the prolonged sharp dips may be behind us. Some optimists even believe that the worst is over – though I maintain a healthy skepticism.
Note the metric being used: passenger traffic. There's a lot of mileage between asses in seats and money in the bank. On a positive ...

by Heather Poole (RSS feed) (6 months ago)
May 6th, 2009 at 9:30AM:
Dear Heather,
I was hired with Southwest Airlines earlier in the year, but I was informed today that Southwest will no longer be having any training classes in 2009. Now I'm going to try for AirTran Airways. I had an interview and told them I successfully interviewed with Southwest Airlines last August however they aren't having any training in 2009 and I'm ready to move forward with my flight ...

by Tom Johansmeyer (RSS feed) (6 months ago)
Apr 28th, 2009 at 8:00AM: As airlines are scrambling for any shred of extra revenue they can find, some policies are getting more attention than others. The so-called "fat passenger policies," which govern the accommodation of passengers who require more than one seat, have attracted the ire of the NAAFA. Never heard of it? It's a new one on me, too: the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance. On the other hand, ...

by Scott Carmichael (RSS feed) (7 months ago)
Mar 29th, 2009 at 3:30PM: Another week, another passenger loses her mind and starts beating up fellow passengers. This time it involves a "large lady in her 60's" who was in line for using the bathroom on her Southwest Airlines flight. At one point, a fellow passenger bumps into her, and all hell broke loose. The lady accused him of touching her, so she starts beating the crap out of him. Not content with just beating ...
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by Scott Carmichael (RSS feed) (8 months ago)
Mar 15th, 2009 at 1:30PM: Embedded video from <a href="http://www.cnn.com/video">CNN Video</a> Check out this hilarious flight attendant on Southwest Airlines. Instead of the boring safety briefing most of us have to hear over and over ...

by Scott Carmichael (RSS feed) (8 months ago)
Mar 7th, 2009 at 11:00AM: Someone needs to tell Artis Leon Ivey Jr. (a.k.a. Coolio) that the workers at the airport checkpoint are on the lookout for more than just guns, bombs and terrorists. When they go through your stuff and discover crack cocaine, the will haul you off to jail. And not the good "Gangsta's paradise" jail, they'll lock you away in the dirty jail, with all the other naughty people. Coolio posted a ...
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