US Airways Dividend Miles (Pre-FlightFund Merger) - SouthWest "Airline" TV show

I watched the A&E show "Airline" tonight. It's a "real" show that follows around SouthWest Airlines employees through the day.

http://www.aetv.com/tv/shows/airline/

The first segment dealt with a flight that was oversold by 53 people. That's FIFTY THREE PEOPLE. It showed how these people were treated by SW employees, who all seemed to be very nice people.

Passengers with advanced tickets were missing cruises, etc because of SW's ticketing policies. It sure doesn't make me want to fly SW.

I've never flown with SW, but wonder from those who have.....is this the exception or the norm?

I'm usually not a misposted thread complainer, but there's a 4 page discussion of this show and people's feelings about WN here (http://www.flyertalk.com/travel/fttravel_forum/Forum11/HTML/012574.html).

You can also probably pick up considerable WN insight in the Southwest Forum...

Misposted? There has been considerable discussion about SW on this board with the impending invasion of PHL.

US FFers are determining if this is an airline that will put USAirways out of business. From what I saw on the TV show, that won't happen....low fares or not.

Previous discussion of this show here in the US forum:

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/Forum51/HTML/006490.html

And with the two other relevant threads linked-to from this one, I'm going to go ahead and close it. Please feel free to continue your discussion (and answer HPTunco's question in one of the other threads. Thanks!

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