Southwest off the runway in Spokane..

[LarryinTN]

I ride SWA four to six times per month and their taxi speeds are just fine.

 

[CitationUltra]

I ride SWA four to six times per month and their taxi speeds are just fine.

Oh, well I guess that settles it then.

 

[Muddauber]

Give it a break guys, this is getting tiresome.

Muddy

 

[Snapshot]

Snapshot - who else would you blame?

I'm not on the NTSB.

Further, I don't place myself in the media, anoint myself an expert, and blame anyone for something that happened nowhere near me only a couple of hours before my interview.

Ambulance chasers.

http://www.kreindler.com/kreindler_news/news_current/2006-10-Gol-Airlines-Flight1907.htm

 

[Captzaahlie]

I'm not on the NTSB.

Further, I don't place myself in the media, anoint myself an expert, and blame anyone for something that happened nowhere near me only a couple of hours before my interview.

Ambulance chasers.

http://www.kreindler.com/kreindler_news/news_current/2006-10-Gol-Airlines-Flight1907.htm

Which law firm are you interviewing at? :laugh:
Sincerely though, good luck regardless of where you interviewed.

 

[pipe]

A few years ago I was jumpseating on WN. I went up to meet the crew. Capt was a friend who I had flown with for years as a reservist.

We proceeded to taxi out like we were being chased by the cops! In all the times I flew with him he had never done that. I think it's just the corporate culture (or something in the kool-aid).

PIPE

 

[Old School 737]

Saw the tire tracks in the snow 2 days ago. Can't believe they missed the Runway threshold lights.

 

[Caveman]

Like it or not SWA has a reputation of taxiing too fast and hustling maybe a little too much in order to get there 1st, or on time, or whatever. Is that what happened this time? I don't have any idea. The NTSB will figure that out and let us know. Until then I suggest we don't make assumptions.

I also suggest to my SWA brethren that where there's smoke, there's fire. Sterling fatality record aside, you guys seem to slide off taxiways and off the end of runways more than the rest of us. At least that's the perception. Whether that's accurate or fair is certainly debatable, but have you ever stopped to consider why some of us may have come to that conclusion?

Your reputation, deserved or not, is that you guys taxi way faster than the rest of us. Add to that perception the reality that you have had several well publicised events over the last few that seems to support that stereotype and you can see how some of us can start to make assumptions. That's not to say stereotypes are accurate, only that they are based on some previous observations.

 

[737 Pylt]

This would never happen if they wore double breasted jackets!

Wow, did you think of that one all by yourself or did your mom help you with that one.
Time to sharpen more pencils you little E1 dork!
Maybe you can tell all the Southwest guys how to keep it on paved surface??
I'm sure most of them would love to help you get hired, once you get your commercial/multi.

737

 

[Tanker Clown]

Good one.