What’s a good airline these days.
I used to like JetBlue.
Yes, the difference was Herb Kelleher.
Yep, they basically went “Big Airline” on their customers thanks to the Hedge Fund that took them over. If Spirit is smart, now, they’d simply transform themselves into the same model that Southwest used for decades (free bags, open seating, free changes)...and have that market to themselves.
But Spirit is too Third World to figure that out.
Elliot is going to try to drive up quarterly numbers and try to drive the stock price, then exit. They don’t care that they’ll leave a smoking ruin in their wake, they’ll have their money and move on to the next company to destroy.
I used to love them. Now, I avoid them like the plague. They are SO messed up. In Baltimore, within the past year…
I had THREE gate changes on one flight…. One side of the airport to the other. In the 2 1/2 hours I was there, I counted 17 gate changes on other flights. That, is nothing but sheer incompetence.
LO, how the mighty have fallen. They once sold dog shit, but convinced us all it was Belgian chocolate, just with their attitude, and on-time record.
Today? I wouldn’t accept a free ticket on SW.
They lost some funding from the US military in the past month and a half.
That, coupled with other issues, has made them do some belt tightening.
I know someone who was laid off that did some of that military-related contract work.
I’d rather drive a couple thousand miles than fly. I don’t fly unless there is no alternative.
Is my memory making it up or did they have an advertising slogan at the beginning about flying for peanuts and serving peanuts on board?
As an aside, prior to the deregulation of the airline industry, the Civil Aeronautics Board regulated fares, routes, and entry of new companies etc. for airlines traveling between states. Deregulation occurred in 1978.
Southwest, formed in 1967 only flew to three Texas cities, known as the Texas triangle, Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio. The CAB rules and regulations only applied to airlines engaged in interstate travel. Any airline that flew only within a state was not subject to CAB rules and regulations.
I don’t know. What? Columo.
Used to be the favorite of the military to ride privately and to work for. It was all former military pilots No union. One airplane regular domestic routes
No drama
Too bad
Honestly, what airline doesn’t suck anymore? Whacking someone in the knees is usually a crime, but not when done with the back of airplane seat. Flying has become very uncomfortable unless one is willing to pay a premium for better seats.
Herb Kelleher died and the worms ate his corpse.
Pretty soon this will be Southwest.
A man walks up to the airline ticket counter with two pieces of luggage to check. He politely requests that one suitcase go to Cleveland, and the other suitcase to Orlando. When the airline ticket agent states that they cannot do that, the customer states “why not, you did it last month!”
bean counters destroy everything
Let me jump in and I’m ready to be attacked!
1. I hated their original seating model. The worst. I avoided them for many years for business travel because of it.
2. Their fares have been inflated by the bags fly free. Now there will be better deals for business travelers with a small carry-on
3. I found their old quirky flight attendant announcements very off putting for business traveling. Was fine for the occasional rubes flying, but I didn’t like it.
I’ve flown SW exclusively dozens ( or more ) times in the last 20 years.
Now after this ‘strategic takeover’ or whatever, and the loss of choice of seating, they’re going to be no better than any other crap airline.
DEI. Watched it happen.