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Southwest Airlines is hinting at launching service to Dallas – Fort Worth by 2025 and has begun introducing overnight flight connections, foreshadowing potential redeye flights. However, constraints like the Wright Amendment and Southwest’s dominance at Dallas Love Field, coupled with a current shortage of pilots, play pivotal roles in shaping these future endeavors.
Since Southwest is no longer selling Early Bird check-in on every flight, and not selling it on the flight I wanted to buy, I simply… didn’t buy the Southwest Airlines flight. And I won’t buy Southwest flights without it most of the time, and certainly not for a two and a half hour flight.
World-recognized cellist Amit Peled played the Israeli national anthem Hatikvah on board a Southwest Airlines flight.
A crewmember introduced the performance, “We’re going to show you a little love with some music. For this kind gentleman up front Amit, we are going to play for the people of Israel. His daughter is there. She is safe. We’ll dedicated it to her and all the people that are at war for Israel right now. So, enjoy you guys.”
A Southwest Airlines passenger is demanding to know why she was “pulled aside” and told she “needed to put a sweater on” over her sports bra. She admits says she wears the same outfit on every trip, and never has a problem. And she wonders whether the size of her mammary glands is what triggered the boarding agent?
A Southwest Airlines passenger is being kicked off of his flight – and while that’s going on he grabs another passenger’s phone – and “proceeds to make a phone call” with it while being he’s removed from the aircraft.
A woman flying Southwest Airlines was kicked off her flight after petting their puppy through the mesh of the puppy’s pet carrier prior to departure, according to other passengers on board.
Southwest Airlines lets passengers pick their own seats once they’re on board the aircraft. The earlier you board, the better choice of seats you have.
And Southwest allows passengers with disabilities to preboard. This is largely on the honor system, and as we know most people lack honor.
On Wednesday morning, a Southwest Airlines passenger on a cross country flight departing from Oakland hadn’t finished her laundry and dried “her clothes by hanging them on the window shades.”
The airline responded to the customer who shared this on social media, saying “Orange you glad it wasn’t underwear?”
Southwest Airlines has announced changes to make earning status easier from flying and from credit card spend, a new benefit to top tier status, and greater flexibility for all members in redeeming their points.
No matter what you think of JSX even (and they are fully legal, achieve high safety standards, and deliver a quality product), it’s embarrassing to see one-time maverick Southwest Airlines having turned into a creature of cronyism. They’re using the government to shut down competition at Dallas Love Field the way that major airlines in the 1970s tried to use government to shut down competition from them.
Gary Leff is one of the foremost experts in the field of miles, points, and frequent business travel -- a topic he has covered since 2002.
Co-founder of frequent flyer community InsideFlyer.com, emcee of the Freddie Awards, and named one of the "World's Top Travel Experts" by Conde' Nast Traveler (2010-Present) Gary has been a guest on most major news media, profiled in several top print publications, and published broadly on the topic of consumer loyalty. More About Gary »
