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Rapping flight attendant entertains passengers on Southwest
Coolio caught with crack cocaine at the LAX airport checkpoint
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 ...Southwest suffers softer stats
Mar 5th, 2009 at 1:00PM: For Southwest Airlines, the numbers are down all over the place. The low-cost carrier flew 5.1 billion revenue passenger miles (RPMs) in February 2009 – a 6 percent drop from the 5.4 million in February 2008. Available seat miles were down 6.5 percent to 7.4 billion. This continues January's trend. RPMs for the first two months of the year are down 6.2 percent (from 10.9 billion RPMs to 10.2 ...Passengers take fun out of Southwest's supermodel airplane
Mar 4th, 2009 at 4:00PM: Try to have a little bit of fun and those pesky passengers get all bent out of shape. Last month, Southwest Airlines joined up with Sports Illustrated to paint the side of one of their Boeing 737s with the image of Bar Rafaeli, an Israeli supermodel, in a white, two-piece swimsuit. It's a brief promotion aimed at promoting the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit edition and tickle a few passengers who ...Boston reaps the rewards of airline competition
Mar 3rd, 2009 at 1:00PM: It's funny. Airlines blame last year's industry implosions on consumers' non-stop demands for low fares. Ask any analyst and they'll say "Transcontinental fares are as low this year as they are were in 1986! Where's the inflation! The Humanity! The Humanity!" We can't be completely to blame though. Three out of four times, a consumer like myself needs to buy a ticket, logs on to Kayak, finds the ...Southwest Airlines announces service to BOSTON
Feb 19th, 2009 at 12:00AM: At long last, Boston has been freed from the grips of legacy carriers. Virgin America just started service to Beantown this month, and tomorrow morning, Southwest Airlines plans to announce that they will be starting flights. Coincidence? Maybe. Great for the everyday passenger? Definitely. Because with Southwest, comes competition, and with their low fares (read: hedge) driving the market, other ...Southwest Airlines spices up a 7-3-7 with a bit of 34-24-35
Feb 12th, 2009 at 2:00PM: Southwest Airlines just unveiled their newest flying PR stunt in the sky. One of their 737's has been decorated with a sexy photo of Israeli model Bar Refaeli. This 23 year old (who by the way is taken, she's dating Leonardo DiCaprio) appears on the cover of this months Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition. Of course, the whole thing is really ironic, since it was Southwest Airlines that ...Southwest Airlines joins the "superskyway" with inflight Internet trials
Feb 10th, 2009 at 5:30PM: Southwest Airlines just announced their first inflight WiFi trial. The service is installed on one of their 540 planes, with an additional 3 planes to be equipped by March. Access is provided by Row 44 - who opted for a satellite-to-plane system, unlike the technology in use by Aircell who use a ground-to-plane system. In addition to the inflight internet access, Southwest also partnered with ...Fare alert! Seattle is on sale!
Jan 22nd, 2009 at 7:00PM: We're a couple of days late to the party because, well, of all of the partying, but these fares were just too good to not tell you about. Southwest Airlines (WN), the great low cost carrier based out of Dallas, TX, has done it again, launching a 50% off fare sale from and to Seattle, WA, originating anywhere that WN flies from. Tickets are rocking as low as $150, with some of the best deals on ...Go to Orlando, but don't pay for it
Jan 15th, 2009 at 9:00AM: The "Bundles of Free Smiles" gig is exactly what you need in this dismal economy. Instead of settling for a disappointing "staycation" (oh, how we all loathe that expression) or digging deep into your pockets for regrettable recreation, the Orlando Convention and Visitors Bureau is giving you six months to pack your bags and get out of town. From now until the end of June, you can check out ...Southwest pilot called in sick after passengers accused him of drinking
Jan 8th, 2009 at 8:00AM: Because I live in Columbus, this story ended up on Wednesday night's local news. As I listened to the report, this is what I picked up.
At 3:30 p.m. on Tuesday, two guys heading for a Southwest flight at Port Columbus International Airport saw a pilot who seemed like he had been drinking at the security check point and decided to intervene. First, they told TSA officials that they were ...Travel Alert! Southwest launches 50% off sale to Vegas
Dec 30th, 2008 at 12:00PM: Down to the last $1000 in your 401K? Why don't you take it all to Las Vegas and put it on black? The nation's largest low cost carrier just kicked off a fare sale to Sin City from ALL of it's departure cities for flights through March 11th, meaning prices have officially reached "dirt cheap." With the Vegas economy in the dumps right now, it's also a great time to score some cheap hotel rooms and ...Refunds from an airline? Say it ain't so
Dec 28th, 2008 at 5:00PM: Just when you thought that airlines were nickel-and-diming us ruthlessly, (Let me check. Yep, they still are.) we get news to give us a sliver of hope. An article in USA Today tells us that if the price of a non-refundable airline ticket that you've already bought goes down, you can ask for a refund. It just needs to be requested before the scheduled flight. I'm not sure which idea is more ...Galley Gossip: Looking for love on the airplane (or at the airport)
Dec 9th, 2008 at 10:30AM:
I never realized how much people actually disliked traveling until I started writing for Gadling. Well the next time you have to travel, don't despair. It's not all bad. Not if you're single that is. In fact, if you are single, it can be a lot of fun. Real fun! How do I know? Because recently I read an interesting article about looking for love at the airport, which I think is a fabulous ...Southwest Announces Fares and Schedule for Minneapolis/St. Paul
Nov 7th, 2008 at 9:00AM: Southwest Airlines recently announced its schedule and fares for its service between Minneapolsi/St. Paul and Chicago Midway. The first flight will take off on March 8th, 2009. The announcement of fares is bound to create a bit of buzz for Southwest in the Twin Cities. Here's why: The current price of a one-way airfare between MSP and Chicago is $426. Southwest's lowest price will be $69 one-way ...Southwest celebrates Halloween with a bang
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Nov 3rd, 2008 at 1:30PM: If you were following along the tweetfeed and some of the events late last week, you may have learned that I spent a little bit of time down at Southwest Airlines' HQ in Dallas for Halloween. Each year the airline has an internal competition among the departments to decorate their sections, arrange skits and try to outdo each other for the famed glory and bragging rights of the best performance. ...The airlines celebrate halloween
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Nov 2nd, 2008 at 9:30PM:
Oh, to be part of the airline industry. As we recently saw in great detail, Southwest Airlines takes the holiday very, very seriously. Out at their headquarters on Friday, I was privy to a celebration of epic proportions -- several departments decked out completely in costume and decoration, some with meticulous construction and weeks put into planning. I heard that some departments hired ...Southwest Airlines Halloween update - looks like someone is having fun!
Oct 31st, 2008 at 12:30PM: The messages on the Gadling Twitter feed sound like they are all in a secret code, but the only thing I can tell is that someone is having a great time celebrating Halloween with Southwest Airlines! Apparently the celebration involves golf carts on the tarmac, an airline CEO dressed up as ZZ Top and a Gadling blogger with a yet to be photographed orange pilot suit (I've demanded photographic ...Gadling infiltrates Southwest HQ for Halloween
Oct 31st, 2008 at 8:00AM:
As I'm sitting on WN1540 headed towards Saint Louis, I'm starting to realize just how serious they take Halloween at Southwest Airlines. Sure, I know they've always been a little wacky – their blog is called "Nuts about Southwest" after all – but I guess at the core of that fun, outer shell I just expected to see the same old straight-laced corporate abomination. It took me until ...Southwest and Air Tran to join forces?
Oct 25th, 2008 at 12:00PM: With merger and oil mania upon us, these days you can't rule out any strange airline pairing. Just this week, Bob Fornaro, CEO of Air Tran mentioned in a conference call that they would be totally open to code-sharing and working with Southwest airlines in the future. Does this mean that Air Tran and Southwest are up to something? As two of the largest low-cost carriers in the industry, their ...
