re: The OT’s favorite airline may shut down this week.

Buying ticket on Spirit or Frontier or any low cost carrier and bitching about the service is worse than complaining at McDonalds about your order being wrong....if you're going to trade with such places you gotta accept the fact that they ain't in the same industry as Delta for instance...

For me at least the airline ain't the issue with air travel...as long as I get from point A to B in one piece alive and in a reasonable amount of time they have more or less fulfilled my expectations. I don't care what airline you fly if it ain't private the airport experience is going to be double barreled shitty. Paying $500 for a ticket on United or $150 for the same destination on Spirit still means dealing with a fricking airport. If United blew me on their flight it wouldn't be worth $350 after dealing with the airport....

It’ll be much better once the airline moves its HQ to Nola.

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Southwest is not really a value or discount airline anymore. It costs just as much as everything else.

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Honestly, it’s probably the worst of the big 4 now (which is incredible because it was the best along with Delta up until 5-10 years ago).

It’s lost all its competitive advantages/differentiators (cost per ticket, bags fly free, open seating, etc.). No longer great customer service. For non-regional flights (e.g., more than 2 hours, so not something like American Eagle), it has the worst jets/technology/snacks of the big 4. Doesn’t have as many flights/destinations…

Southwest is pretty much solely relying on customer loyalty/habit at this point. We’ll see how long that lasts.