Posted on 04/21/2006 1:14:22 PM PDT by Paleo Conservative
The only service I care about is getting there on time and in one piece. Nobody does that better than SWA.
Although it gets pretty tiring holding the GPS out the window so you can get a fix on a decent number of satellites.
< ]B^)
I use my GPS all the time when I fly.
Sadly, I have to fly SW in a few weeks, I don't care for them, and I can fly free for life on USairways, but its too important to try to standby, so its a SW/ATA flight.
Yuck
If you're tired of holding your arm out the window you can always ask for a wing seat.:-)
You got it backwards. Southwest does require its cabin crews (and pilots, gate agents, etc.) to clean the aircraft between flights to save money. Delta does no such thing.
Nope. It was on the radio all day today.
If so, then I suppose some Delta employees and executives who chose to do so cleaned some airplanes the other night. But you said Delta was "asking their flight attendents to clean up the...cabin after each flight off the clock for free", which is completely incorrect, but which is required of Southwest employees.
A good rule of thumb to use is that if something aviation-related is reported in mainstream media, it's been misreported badly.
Fair enough. Did not have time to look further into it when I posted my first post on this.
Still in the overall scheme of things, SWA is doing alot more things right than Delta. Don't you think?
I flew back to Ontario (CA) from Reno Nevada this past Tuesday on Southwest Airlines.
While the service was very professional, plane arrived on time, I must say that the stewardesses looked worn out, disheveled and couple of them could have substituted successfully as scare crows.
Their webpage is fairly plain (almost amateurish), but that suits their no-frills manner quite well.
I've noticed that while Southwest typically advertises cheap fares, I often have a hard time locking in those "special fares" to the point that the standard (read: non-low cost) airlines are often cheaper.
Incidentally, I've also heard that one of the reasons that Southwest is making such a killing right now--as opposed to the other airlines--is that it hedged the price of fuel some years back. While that's certainly great business and foresight, it will be interesting to see if the profits remain stable when their fuel contracts expire.
I'd say they're both doing a lot of things right, right now. The difference is that Southwest created a very successful business plan long ago, and by following it strictly they've continued to do very well. Delta's formerly very successful business plan started to fall apart between 2000 and 2002, at which time they were unfortunately run by a group of executive bandits who cared nothing for the company or the industry and who were just out to loot whatever they could for themselves. So while Southwest continues to build on a long string of success by doing what they've always done, the new management at Delta started from a much worse position and even with all the things they're doing right these days it will take them a while to dig themselves out of the hole that was dug for them.
I don't know, they could probably make money serving Edmonton, Calgary and Winnipeg. Perhaps London, Ontario as well.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.