Airlines tend to receive all kinds of harsh feedback from disgruntled travelers. But they do the best they can?and sometimes much more than that.
Just ask passenger Peggy Uhle, who will be forever grateful to Southwest Airlines after they helped her through a real family trauma.
When Peggy...
Pilots at Southwest Airlines picketed at the airline's hub at Love Field in Dallas on Wednesday and the shareholders meeting in MDW. The pilots are not on strike, but they're trying to draw attention to their demands for better contracts and the slow pace of negotiations. Pilots at Southwest...
How come there is no ranting/bashing/comments going on about the SWA TA?
is everyone gone to sleep or just regurgitating old posts because they're bored
Flight BE384 from Southampton to Dublin last Friday when the pilot announced they would have to turn back shortly after take-off.
"About 15 minutes into the flight the pilot came over the radio to say there was a problem with the navigation system and we had to return to Southampton," "Then he...
Check out the aborted landing by BA due to high winds, this is very typical for the LEEDs/Bradford airport
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-2885200/Footage-shows-moment-BA-plane-aborts-landing-Leeds-Bradford-Airport-high-winds.html
I flew from DUB to MLA on Ryanair last week (3 1/2 hours)and there is nothing to compare the "Cattle Car" effect of the 737-800 with 189 passengers anywhere in the states. The seats were so close to each other that it was impossible for the average sized person to get the tray table down all the...
Plane passengers had to spend the night on a hotel ballroom floor after their aircraft developed a technical problem. It is understood some of the Delta Air Lines customers due to fly from Dublin to New York over the weekend slept on the ballroom floor of the busy Carlton Hotel Dublin Airport...
Just got back from DUB and heard a report on the news there that Ethiopian Airlines were seeking permission from the DAA to land in DUB and use the US pre-clearance facilities and then fly on to the US (LAX) (probably pick up passengers as well). The US carriers using DUB told the DAA that they...
A US pilot has spoken of his shock at having to abort takeoff because his plane crashed into a fish.
Lieutenant Commander Nick Toth?s Gulfstream IV jet was halfway down the runway when he and his aircrew spotted a large osprey flying in front of them.
The bird vanished underneath the plane and...
RYANAIR will sell ?10 flights to the US when it finally manages to get the long-haul aircraft needed, airline chief Michael O'Leary has said.
The airline has a business plan ready for launching transatlantic flights but admits it will be several years before it can get the planes needed.
Mr...
The parent firm of Scandinavian airline Norwegian has pumped another ?46.6m into its new Irish subsidiary as it prepares to use Ireland as the base for its long-haul service, Norwegian Air International (NAI).
US aviation unions have been campaigning heavily in Ireland, the United States and...
THE 41-year-old niece of fashion icon Ralph Lauren has flown a team of lawyers in from New York as she faces a district court charge in relation to an alleged air-rage incident.
Jewellery designer Jenny Lauren was charged at Shannon garda station in relation to the alleged air-rage incident on...
06 December 2013
http://www.independent.ie/world-news/europe/video-plane-forced-to-abort-landing-in-high-winds-29816503.html
A pilot trying to land a plane at Birmingham Airport was forced to abort the manoeuvre at the last moment due to heavy winds.
The Emirates flight from Dubai was due to...
A huge Boeing 747 Dreamlifter cargo plane has landed at a tiny airport by mistake, the planemaker has admitted.
The aircraft came down safely at Colonel James Jabara Airport, about nine miles from McConnell Air Force Base in Wichita where it was supposed to land.
Boeing spokesman Marc Birtel...
Remember it takes a college degree to fly a plane, but only a high
school diploma to fix one. Reassurance for those of us who fly
routinely in our jobs.
After every flight, UPS pilots fill out a form, called a "gripe sheet,"
which tells mechanics about problems with the aircraft. The mechanics...
I thought SWA was looking at Sun Country a while ago, they have 7- 737/700 and 10 - 800's and they use most of the same airports in the US as SWA (except Anchorage, Lansing, DFW, JFK and Palm Springs) and they have all the Caribbean and Mexico locations as well.
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