In addition to refusing to fly Continental, I am very, very unwilling to fly Southwest. I appreciate their presence in my area (Louisville), but don't want to travel with them because:
1)No pre-assigned seats. Unlike Ma and Pa Kettle, I don't have time to get to the airport 2-3 hours ahead of time and schedule 2 hour layovers to get a reasonable shot at exit row seats.
2)No agreement with other carriers to accomodate bumped/misconnected passengers.
3)Their 12 month window for accumulation of FF credits. Sorry, I'm just not going to fly/charge that much in a 1-year period, so rather than lose it, I just don't accumulate it.
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Time..... is on my side.