Posts Tagged ‘Southwest’

How do you board an airplane?

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Simple enough question really. Line people up, and let them go at it. Except it’s not. Prior to seeing this page on ways to board airplanes, I really only knew about two types: Back-to-front (how we board on AA) and random (think the Southwest cattle call).
Interestingly enough, there are a couple others. Having watched the [...]

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Southwest hops on the Double EQM Bandwagon

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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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Today’s FAA; No longer “Stack ‘em. Pack ‘em. And rack ‘em.”

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*shudder*
Cook said the four planes — a Delta Boeing 757, a Virgin Boeing 747 and two Southwest Boeing 737s — were traveling south en route to Orlando International Airport near Wilmington, N.C., when they were rerouted inland on orders from an air traffic control supervisor who wanted to test the skills of a trainee.
[SNIP]
Besides rerouting [...]

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Priority AAccess…what’s it worth? So far, absolutely nothing (say it again!)

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AA’s finally got it’s new Priority AAccess program out (and according to some, it’s bad! BAD!, then again, these are the same people who are raving about LV’s new elite give-aways) I’m not so sure. As all have pointed out, all you get now that you didn’t have before is a cutsy into the front [...]

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