Comments on: Southwest Airlines is deservedly in financial trouble

By: Robert Zimmerman

Robert Zimmerman — Thu, 02 May 2024 19:36:24 +0000

In reply to Richard C. Moeur. Richard C. Moeur: If you don't mind, can you tell us some details about your 2012 bad experience with Southwest?

By: Richard C. Moeur

Richard C. Moeur — Thu, 02 May 2024 19:25:13 +0000

After the inexcusable way Southwest treated my family in 2012, I not only never will fly them again, I have been eager to see them put completely out of business.

By: stan

stan — Thu, 02 May 2024 12:49:26 +0000

imagine the frustration of living in Denver where Southwest, & equally DEI obsessed United have most of the gates and most all the good flight times. Pick your poison.

By: Pete Moss

Pete Moss — Thu, 02 May 2024 10:54:51 +0000

Southwest is nothing but a flying cattle car in which you scramble for a far-too-small seat sitting next to some obese woman who has never once passed a Dunkin Donut without picking up a dozen. My strategy in the first years of flying for business was to grab the first aisle seat I could find and then stare at each person coming towards me in my best Hannibal Lecter impersonation – I’ve got fava beans and if you sit next to me your liver is mine. Trust me, that approach worked.

By: Ralph Gizzip

Ralph Gizzip — Thu, 02 May 2024 10:50:15 +0000

“…its endorsement of … the queer agenda …”

Considering most male flight attendants ARE gay, this kinda makes sense.

By: mac

mac — Thu, 02 May 2024 09:15:43 +0000

America’s airlines DO hate their customers, and their customers hate and despise both them and the TSA. Most people who have any possibility of traveling sans air flight do so. Who would want to be packed into a flying cattle car and treated like a criminal in the process?Flying a U.S. airline today is a truly miserable experience and best avoided whenever possible. If the lot of them go bankrupt, they’ll wait a long time for sympathy from me!

By: tolkein

tolkein — Thu, 02 May 2024 08:29:49 +0000

If companies are pursuing affirmative action policies (DEI), which are illegal, then I have no sympathy with them, when (not if) things turn bad.
But my experience of US airlines (apart from Jet Blue) is that customer service is terrible. They hate their customers. Flying across the Atlantic, UK airlines are much better, and don’t even think about comparing with Cathay, Emirates, Singapore. Why are US airlines so poor in customer service? Wasn’t always this way. For example, I flew back out of Orlando last January and used the Delta Lounge, as Virgin use their lounge. Front desk surly, packed and overall experience, food etc, not a patch on Virgin lounges.

By: Jeff Wright

Jeff Wright — Thu, 02 May 2024 06:24:50 +0000

In other news–the other whistleblower, Josh Dean of Spirit…is one.

Boeing is being framed–I thing this all actually the work of–a

Antonov Chigurh–*

–OW Robert that hurt!

Oh Robbie, I just wanted to be part of the show wah…

By: Blair Ivey

Blair Ivey — Thu, 02 May 2024 03:40:58 +0000

” I used to be a big fan of the company, but that ended in 2020, when it became the first airline to mandate masks — . . .”

My relationship with Southwest, verbatim.

By: GaryMike

GaryMike — Wed, 01 May 2024 22:43:56 +0000

DEI Airlines: Take the plunge for the team. Feel good. They do.