Originally Posted by
jsloan
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All US airlines are, pretty much, equally despised, except Southwest, because their flight attendants tell jokes. (:shrug
. UA flyers hate UA, DL flyers hate DL, AA flyers hate AA. Yesterday, I was on a UA flight with a guy who claimed that he had major (3+ hour) delays on 7 straight DL itineraries when he had to fly them last year. It's a "grass is always greener" mentality.
This year I added a few flights that sampled UA, DL, AA, SW and AS and will respectfully disagree, before I had a perception similar to yours, after multiple flights on SW and more then enough on the other big three don't think SW is so far above ( and jokes get no mileage with me in my judgement ) and given how they run it don't think they stand anywhere far ahead of AS or DL, but agree UA and AA bring up the rear.
BTW also agree with other posters there is no way they US will allow any of the big three to go under, as vilified as they are, they are a necessary evil for every modern economic power to have their local travel interested protected and monitized!