It shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise, but given Southwest’s history of a more…egalitarian airline, it was still somewhat of a shock to get the email announcing that Southwest was effectively joining the double EQM race to the bottom the legacy carriers announced over the last couple of weeks.
As you may recall, when [...]

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Robbyn and I got to LGA a couple hours early, and was able to stand-by for an earlier flight. I gave up a confirmed upgrade (I know, you’re all sad for me), for row 31?!?!?!?!
Might I point out that on an AA MD-80, Row 31 is right next to the engine. It was loud.
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Oh dear lord…who would have thought that getting to LGA (from ORD) would be such an ordeal.
Robbyn and I were on AA 380; with an estimated push-back of 10:40am. We got moved back 10 minutes due to LGA weather issues, we did make it off on-time. Then we hit the wall of turbulence from hell. [...]

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