FlyerTalk Forums - View Single Post - Potential Switch to UA or Other in the DC Area
Thread: Potential Switch to UA or Other in the DC Area
View Single Post
Old Oct 29, 2007 | 2:49 pm
  #15  
nsx
Moderator: Southwest Airlines, Capital One
Community Builder
Conversation Starter
All eyes on you!
25 Years on Site
 
Join Date: Sep 1999
Location: California
Programs: WN A-list preferred, United Club Lietime (sic) Member
Posts: 22,905
Originally Posted by choster
None of the above for me. Southwest doesn't offer redeye flights, doesn't offer assigned seating, doesn't fly to several major airports/cities, and doesn't fly internationally, which to me translates into wasted time-- wasted daylight in an aluminum tube; wasted time in line or trying to check in at midnight from a cell phone; wasted time getting to Manhattan from ISP/Beacon Hill from MHT/West Seattle from... PDX; wasted time flying miles I could have banked towards New Zealand or India.
These are perfectly valid reasons to choose a legacy airline, except the part about midnight check-in. That practice ended on November 9, 2005, when Southwest switched to 24-hour advance checkin.
nsx is offline  
Reply