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Old Jan 11, 2017, 3:35 am
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mikeecix
 
Join Date: Nov 2006
Posts: 73
Planning on Feb 8th 1930 dep. Flight diverted into PHX again last night and ended up getting into LAX at 0125.

Don't think it's worth the risk in Feb bearing in mind the weather could be just as bad as this month. Going to pay the extra and fly AA.

As has been mentioned previously, it's very misleading to advertise a service as non-stop when there is a clear trend over time that the aircraft used is not suitable. If it only happened on the odd occasion, I could understand but having the aircraft needing to divert due to strong headwinds let alone bad weather at destination is not good planning. Goodness knows how they make money on this route with all the diversion costs but maybe it's still profitable. It's a quick way of alienating your customers though :-(

Thank goodness for Flyertalk and FlightAware ^ ...without a quick check on this forum and a look at the stats on FA, I would have booked last night and been none the wiser.

-Mikee-
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