Suggestion for future chartered Sky Rumpus?
Suggestion for future chartered Sky Rumpus?
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/offbeat/pilot-congratulates-passengers-for-consuming-all-alcohol-on-the-plane/ar-AAlE71A
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/offbeat/pilot-congratulates-passengers-for-consuming-all-alcohol-on-the-plane/ar-AAlE71A
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/offbeat/pilot-congratulates-passengers-for-consuming-all-alcohol-on-the-plane/ar-AAlE71A
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/offbeat/pilot-congratulates-passengers-for-consuming-all-alcohol-on-the-plane/ar-AAlE71A
Southwest Airlines, of course. The only airline with a consistent sense of humor. :-)
ReplyDeleteThat's actually impressive because there's no leg of Southwest flying anywhere for longer than an hour. Seriously, the Captains are all "Welcome aboard our flight from 'Milwaukee County's General Mithcell International Airport' to 'Nowhere That is Too Far to Drive, but We Hate Waiting for the Car to Heat Up.' We've reached our peak cruising altitude of "It's Time to Start our Descent into 'Yup, Still Frozen'". Please return all tray tables and seat backs to their full and upright position, and congrats on setting a new record for chugging two industrial drums of Everclear and fruit punch. All passed out co-travelers can be picked up at baggage claim '6 More Layovers Until Montana'".
ReplyDeleteDrew Gillmore I'll remember that next time I fly Southwest nonstop to Dallas.
ReplyDeleteYes, but you are still landing Love Field, so.
ReplyDeleteDrew Gillmore why do you say that like it's a bad thing?
ReplyDeleteBecause it's funnier that way?
ReplyDeleteBut more to the point, having to travel that far down 35, cross 635 or take the DNT to that point have never ended well for me.
ReplyDeleteDrew Gillmore I know what you're getting at with Southwest and short flights. Back when I was interviewing for med school out of college, for example, getting coast to coast on Southwest meant at least two hops, for example. Southwest was always (and remains) built on the 737, and so back in the day, Southwest was all about the short hops.
ReplyDeleteBut over the near-twenty years Southwest has been my goto airline, the increasingly extended range 737s have given Southwest increasingly long non-stops. The flight in the article above is a three- hour direct from Oakland to Kansas City. In fact, there's now a non-stop Oakland to Baltimore (six hours). From the Baltimore hub that was my home base for six years, I had non-stops to Seattle, Los Angeles, and San Diego, too.
The latest generation 737-700s and 800s have twice the range of the original 737's (~3,000 vs ~1,500 miles) and the 737-MAXs coming online will have over 3800 miles range - that's Trans-Atlantic flight range at that point. I wonder from time to time whether the 737s really still have that much interoperability - part of Southwest Airlines' Big Idea was to only fly one family of plane, thus in theory simplifying training, maintenance, etc., but I've come to wonder whether there's still enough in common between the early and late 737s for that to still be true? Maybe? Or maybe Southwest is just retiring the older planes as fast as it gets new ones? Regardless, the 737 - and Southwest - are a lot different than they were even ten years ago...
Guys, jokes about serving Everclear and Fruit Punch on an airline that used to pride itself on being able to fly anywhere an hour away for $80 that fly out of places like DAL and MKE being made by exaggeration for effect by a guy who routinely flies Spirit should not be dissected, yo.
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