PositionandHold
Truthiness
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The new SWA commercial can be viewed here:
http://gallery.swamedia.com/videos/value=open/type=video
It should be the first one, titled "Tired of being nickled and dimed by other airlines?"
I've actually been waiting for an ad like this for some time, because that commercial is exactly the way this industry is going. Paying for everything from inflight food (who decided that a croissantwich tastes good? Let alone worth 8 bucks?) to exit row seats...to the peanut mix on NWA. As far as I know, they're the only ones who charge for peanuts.
So most responses to this are "then stop paying walmart prices for tickets." Problem is, even when I do pay $500.00 for a ticket to LAX, I get the same service that the Orbitz-b*tch who paid 200.00 bucks and booked 5 months ago did.
You get better service and more for your buck flying an LCC. That's the truth. While the Legacy airlines pretty soon will be taking out the seats and making you hold on to handrails.
I wonder if one of Southwest's secret is advertising all their fares one-way. Psychologically, that'll bring people to the websites booking two one-way fares thinking their getting a steal by being able to go LAX-DFW for $150.00 (one way) when in reality that $300.00 roundtrip price is probably more than you'd pay on AA.
I never fly SWA because every single time I book, UAL or AWA/USAir is non-stop to where I need to go and costs less anyways.
http://gallery.swamedia.com/videos/value=open/type=video
It should be the first one, titled "Tired of being nickled and dimed by other airlines?"
I've actually been waiting for an ad like this for some time, because that commercial is exactly the way this industry is going. Paying for everything from inflight food (who decided that a croissantwich tastes good? Let alone worth 8 bucks?) to exit row seats...to the peanut mix on NWA. As far as I know, they're the only ones who charge for peanuts.
So most responses to this are "then stop paying walmart prices for tickets." Problem is, even when I do pay $500.00 for a ticket to LAX, I get the same service that the Orbitz-b*tch who paid 200.00 bucks and booked 5 months ago did.
You get better service and more for your buck flying an LCC. That's the truth. While the Legacy airlines pretty soon will be taking out the seats and making you hold on to handrails.
I wonder if one of Southwest's secret is advertising all their fares one-way. Psychologically, that'll bring people to the websites booking two one-way fares thinking their getting a steal by being able to go LAX-DFW for $150.00 (one way) when in reality that $300.00 roundtrip price is probably more than you'd pay on AA.
I never fly SWA because every single time I book, UAL or AWA/USAir is non-stop to where I need to go and costs less anyways.
