Why Do People Bash Swa?

[ivauir]

I'll agree, OAK is pretty nasty. However, filthy lavs would be fragrant as a spring day compared to your boarding area. It was a freak show. Spare us the "we fly delightful grandparents, and fresh faced college students" BS. You know as well as I do there are as many crackheads, bums and vagrants. Some people don't need to be at the airport.

Let's call this thread what it really is. It's not a "let's defend poor little SWA airlines" thread. It's the same bunch of SWA folks who like to use any opportunity to boast, brag and chest pound about how some truely awful events that hurt most airlines, helped make theirs better. Happens over and over on here.

Your hatred is showing. Seek help.

 

[Flopgut]

Your hatred is showing. Seek help.

There you are! The gang's all here.

Are you MCO based?

 

[Tejas-Jet]

I'll agree, OAK is pretty nasty.

As a city...I wouldn't want to live there...but the airport isn't all that bad...you're just exaggerating...just like you did back when you proclaimed that SWA officials had paid somebody off when the Wright (Wrong) Amendment compromise was reached.

Did you walk over to where the new gates are? With the 1 hr+ turns that the legacies do, you should have had time to go over there. I don't think that you guys park there...seems that SWA got all the gates in that new area.

You may be "disappointed/frustrated" with SWA's business plan...and it obviously brings you lots of heartburn....but lets not forget who brought frank lorenzo to this industry....

Tejas

 

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....but lets not forget who brought frank lorenzo to this industry....

Tejas

This may be the most assine comment I've read on this board. Excluding pure flame, that is.

 

[Tejas-Jet]

This may be the most assine comment I've read on this board. Excluding pure flame, that is.

Spell Police...Spell Police...Spell Police...

Isn't assinine spelled with 2 "i"s ?

All part of the debate, baby...

Tejas

 

[mdf]

Just when I thought Flop had turned the corner!

 

[capt. megadeth]

More importantly.....who cares?

 

[Flopgut]

As a city...I wouldn't want to live there...but the airport isn't all that bad...you're just exaggerating...just like you did back when you proclaimed that SWA officials had paid somebody off when the Wright (Wrong) Amendment compromise was reached.

Did you walk over to where the new gates are? With the 1 hr+ turns that the legacies do, you should have had time to go over there. I don't think that you guys park there...seems that SWA got all the gates in that new area.

You may be "disappointed/frustrated" with SWA's business plan...and it obviously brings you lots of heartburn....but lets not forget who brought frank lorenzo to this industry....

Tejas

I would not wish Lorenzo on SWA or anybody else.

More to point: I'm frustrated with the consumer expectation that you can come to the airport looking like a filthy bum, punch out the agent, crap in the seat, get piss drunk, all for a $149 round trip ticket and still not be the least bit satisfied. Some seniors have to decide between heating the house or prescription drugs. Energy costs can skyrocket on pure speculation. You would think airline tickets would be the most obvious thing to let fluctuate with market forces! Nope. SWA wants to make it as close to free as possible.

 

[XBOEINGDRVR]

They bash them for the same reasons they bash Jetblue and airtran. Whoever is doing well at that time gets bashed, all I can come up with is that they wished they worked there and cant.

 

[YourPilotFriend]

Well in the beginning, SWA was where you went if you couldn't get on with a legacy. Now they are the most selective and get the best candidates. That's why their FO's are real professionals, and the senior captains are a bunch of dopes.