Et tu, #SouthwestAir ? Unhappy is an understatement.

"Just from the travel we’ve booked for this year, I’ve already gotten back hundreds (maybe into the thousands) of dollars over what I initially paid."

#travel #southwest #companionpass #airfare #vacation #cheapflights #southwestair #southwestairlines #flying

https://www.routetoretire.com/cheapest-southwest-flights/

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Southwest Air ditching open seating & switching to assigned seats? Man, there's a lotta 20-somethings that are gonna need retraining.

"Southwest Airlines Is Ditching Open Seating on Flights" - WSJ
https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/news/southwest-airlines-is-ditching-open-seating-on-flights/ar-BB1qBorW?OCID=ansmsnnews11

#southwestair

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A Windows version from 1992 is saving Southwest’s butt right now

Southwest hasn't been impacted by the CrowdStrike outage, and that's reportedly because it's still running Windows 3.1.

Digital Trends

was on a flight last week that took off, leveled off at around 4000 ft, and started circling. there was no announcement from the flight deck about what was happening. finally after about 30 minutes, the plane started climbing. the captain said there was a problem with a gauge, but they got the all clear from the maintenance crew to continue to our destination. the plane was a Boeing 737-700 (not a MAX).

#SouthwestAir

Continuing my sharing of airport photos... Southwest Airlines special livery "Nevada One" pushing back from the gate with a lektro pushback. Also got the beacon!

Taken with a Canon 6D MKII and a 24-70 f2.8

#photo #photography #aviation #airplanes #southwestair #beaconshot

1 of my 2 #SouthWestAir flights today was delayed. The only surprising thing about that is that they actually managed to keep at least 1 flight on time today. How long before they make drastic leadership changes? Or will they just be content with being worse than Spirit?

Delta Follows Southwest In Surprise Social Media Ban

A year after the government banned TikTok on its devices, the clampdown has begun for government contractors

Delta Airlines told employees they cannot have TikTok, or any made by ByteDance, not just on airline-issued devices - but also on any personal gadget that they use to access the airline's inner systems

#tiktok #bytedance #socialmedia #china #data #bigdata #deltaair #southwestair #tech

https://www.thestreet.com/technology/did-delta-ban-tiktok-on-planes

This napkin on #SouthwestAir is indicative of a policy failure. #Dallas, #Houston, and #SanAntonio are perfectly positioned for high speed rail, but instead we've spent billions to connect them by air. #trains #transit #sustainability

This is the upside of technocracy - where you have people who are appointed to do good things, and who want to do good things, and who figure out how to do good things. There are dormant powers *everywhere* in law. Remember when #SouthwestAir stranded a million passengers over Christmas week and Transport Secretary #PeteButtigieg responded by talking sternly about doing better, but without opening any enforcement actions against SWA?

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