I've flown over 1.5 million miles on various airlines and over 50 segments this year on WN, but never experienced a landing profile like the one last night (WN #2678 STL-PHL - see link below). Clear skies, very little wind and a pleasant flight up until final.

We were on the downwind and made our right turn for final. Gear was dropped to bleed off airspeed and flaps were almost fully extended. That's when the fun began. Click and paste the attached link in your browser to see what the next 15-20 minutes looked like. Gear went back up and we executed a number of sharp left and right turns. Power up, power down. We were all over the place. Gear dropped a second time and we went to full flaps and landed without incident (or any kind of explanation from the cockpit).

If I didn't know better I'd say we had a gear problem and we were doing some kind of trouble-shooting. The series of left/right turns were fairly aggressive and angled steeper than I've experienced before (combined with power up and power down). You could see that there were a number of "concerned" looks on people's faces. Who knows, it might have just been a lot of traffic to vector around on a busy night, but I was worried until the mains hit the numbers and we came to a stop.

http://flightaware.com/live/flight/S...210Z/KSTL/KPHL