What’s next for southwest ?
07-01-2022, 11:11 AM
#211
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I did one day on interisland flying and I’ll never bid for it again. Legs were blocked at over an hour for what is essentially a :20 minute flight. They’re all on -800s so you have a 45-50 minute turn between legs. So you block in :30 early every flight and then twiddle your thumbs for an hour and a half, FIVE times in one day. Flew 1:20 and sat for 6 hours. Couldn’t wait for that day to be over.
07-01-2022, 01:52 PM
#214
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I did one day on interisland flying and I’ll never bid for it again. Legs were blocked at over an hour for what is essentially a :20 minute flight. They’re all on -800s so you have a 45-50 minute turn between legs. So you block in :30 early every flight and then twiddle your thumbs for an hour and a half, FIVE times in one day. Flew 1:20 and sat for 6 hours. Couldn’t wait for that day to be over.
it’ll be interesting to see how the trips are scheduled when inter island ramps up to 60 a day while crossings are reduced starting September.
07-01-2022, 01:52 PM
#215
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I did one day on interisland flying and I’ll never bid for it again. Legs were blocked at over an hour for what is essentially a :20 minute flight. They’re all on -800s so you have a 45-50 minute turn between legs. So you block in :30 early every flight and then twiddle your thumbs for an hour and a half, FIVE times in one day. Flew 1:20 and sat for 6 hours. Couldn’t wait for that day to be over.
07-01-2022, 03:36 PM
#217
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Fact. I just had one recently for the first time in probably 4-5 years. Easy flying, great scenery, but our big stations struggle on the ground so bad that it is like being punched in the face all day.
SBA is the exception. Contract station that can genuinely turn a full 700 in 22 minutes. I witnessed it.
07-01-2022, 04:03 PM
#218
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I did one day on interisland flying and I’ll never bid for it again. Legs were blocked at over an hour for what is essentially a :20 minute flight. They’re all on -800s so you have a 45-50 minute turn between legs. So you block in :30 early every flight and then twiddle your thumbs for an hour and a half, FIVE times in one day. Flew 1:20 and sat for 6 hours. Couldn’t wait for that day to be over.
And I never told you or even insinuated that you’re an “idiot”.
07-01-2022, 08:11 PM
#220
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Being a self-professed Eastern European metrosexual redneck ….I don’t sh!t-talk. That’s got nothing to do with being a metrosexual redneck but rather the fact that most….er….almost all, Eastern Europeans DO NOT sh!t talk.
They just cut the sugarcoating out and tell it like they see it.
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