Comments | helium3: On Southwest Airlines

helium3

On Southwest Airlines

Apr 08, 2005 11:17

In the last week, I flew to Davis, CA and Troy, NY. In case you're curious, that's about 8,000 miles of flying. No wonder I'm so tired. It was odd though. I didn't notice any differences from being in different time zones. I guess all those people (looking at Olga) who complaining about the monstrous jet-lag caused by flying across the country are ( Read more... )

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the glory of WN cxa340 April 8 2005, 12:41:53 UTC

Well, it's considered a stop, but not a connection technically. The FAA says they only need to notify you that there is a stop-over along the way, but it does not count as a connection because it retains the same flight number, just a difference sequence. WN is famous for this, which allows them to offer multiple services on the same route with the same plane, and seemlessly book travel like that while the majors would make a passenger have a connection.

Re: the glory of WN helium3 April 8 2005, 12:50:21 UTC

Yeah. I figured something like that was going on. And it explains why Southwest can generally be cheaper than a lot of comparable airlines. I just wish they would notify me. Nothings worse than being in a crap-assed mood and realizing that your flight is going to be more annoying than you expected because of an unannounced stop.