That's fine. Maybe it needs to cost more to fly. My guess is that they would make the necessary changes to improve. My company knows that if we don't protect the customer we will be fined and or reputation would be tarnished. Airlines have seemed to be given a pass to bypass any expectations of quality service.
Southwest disaster
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United has the same. I think the issue was that Southwest’s barcode system was in disagreement with the AirTag.
I fly a lot for work and never use Southwest and this is one of the many reasons.
The US Department of Transportation and FAA should revoke Southwest's Air Carrier certification until it can prove it can adequately manage irregular operations to a sufficient standard.
The US Department of Transportation and FAA should revoke Southwest's Air Carrier certification until it can prove it can adequately manage irregular operations to a sufficient standard.
But that still depends on humans to scan the barcodes as the bags get boarded and unboarded. Changing those barcodes to RFID would eliminate the human error element of the system.
United already has this. Bags get scanned onto the plane, off the plane, and into baggage claim. I can check my United app and see exactly where my bags are if I check them.
But RFID has other constraints like power and data transmission. You have to have something to "turn on" the chip, then the chip has to broadcast its location. Not to mention it has to know where it is. And the chip probably wouldn't be allowed to broadcast during the flight just like you turn cell reception off.
AppleTags just say "I'm near this device" until they find a device that has location services built in. The tag itself doesn't report a location. The phone/tablet/laptop its nearby does.
I used to fly to visit mom and dad. Took me a day in airports. I could drive and be there for lunch the next day if I got on the road first thing in the morning. That was a no brainer. All day in my vehicle or all day in airports/airplanes. I'll pick my vehicle all day every day
12 seems way too high for this but it depends on lots of factors including how far you are from the departure airport, how far your destination is from the arrival airport, whether you'd need a layover, what time you want to leave/want to get there, etc.
It's "only" 11 hours (without stops) to drive from DSM to DFW. I'm flying that 10 out of 10 times.
driving is usually a winner if you live in a place like Iowa where the closest major airports are a couple hr drive, or you have a more expensive flight and likely layover from a regional aiport. living close (I'd say hour or less) from a major airport definitely errs towards flying more.
I'm probably driving that 10 out of 10
FWIW both my flights tomorrow showing as on time. Fingers crossed.
Make the drive once or twice a year, we flew down in September, and cost us about $900 for the two of us, plus we had to cab it too the hotel for the wedding. Hated not having a car in Dallas.
Its not a bad drive at all, we take I-35 down and over to St. Jo, jump on I-29 and that takes you all the way to I-70 and the Kansas turnpike. Oklahoma City to Norman can be a pain if you hit it at the wrong time, but no too bad. Dallas is a pain in the ass from Denton all the way downtown.
We can drive our Camary down and back for a couple hundred in gas and food at most. Quickest I have made it is 10 hours, but that was leaving on a Sunday morning from Dallas and flew out of town. Our flight was out of KC, whole deal was 7 to 8 hours. So, we saved maybe 3 to 4 hours tops. If we had more time, we would have driven it, like we plan to do at Easter.
Definitely not going to save much time driving close to 3.5 hours to an airport.
Different strokes! Won't catch me doing a roundtrip drive to Dallas (or any place with frequent direct air service more than something like a 6 hour drive each way) ever.
I believe it. You hit a lucky streak apparently. From Ord-Den in Jul 2021 I got a cancellation text for a party of 10 while standing in line to check in. They told us weather, but weather was great and guess how many cancellations other airlines had that day from Ord-Den?....0. We said at the time that the Feds needed to step in as it was apparent Southwest was just completely going up in smoke and not delivering for customers. They gave us a bunch of credits to use. Booked for Mdw-Phx in Mar 2022. Our flight luckily went out, but talked with other people going to Phx and flight was cancelled due to, you guessed it, weather. 3 out of 5 flights to Phx that day were cancelled. Return flight to Mdw, on a beautiful travel day? You guessed it...cancelled. What was once arguably the best US airline has become the worst. Flown Spirit a few times in the past couple of years, and very basic for sure, but easily a better operated airline than Southwest. Southwest was the poster child for MBA program case studies when I got my MBA in 2006. That was how to run a successful company. In a few years they will be the poster child yet again for MBA case studies on what not to do while running a company. The new leadership has obviously failed.
Seeing that most of these people got nothing, it means the flights should have been free.
I've had to sleep in the DFW airport twice in the last 11 years because of storms (flying to/from OMA) that shut down the airport. And I only fly a couple times a year at most. That's the part that makes me lean towards driving now. I'm not at the mercy of airline delays/cancellations. Plus I don't live close to a major airport.
