SW 1380 one passenger dead: Uncontained engine failure and emergency landing at PHL
Apr 27, 2018, 5:04 am
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Apr 27, 2018, 6:40 am
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Apr 27, 2018, 9:22 am
#348
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Whats odd though is Google does not show the first 2 legs of 8881 LGA - DAL and DAL - MSY if you type WN 8881, I guess it takes a bit for them to get the flight data in the search engine
Apr 27, 2018, 12:41 pm
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FlightAware - which had your Tuesdsy flight arriving 27 min early - includes all the WN 8881 city pairs.
Apr 27, 2018, 12:48 pm
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But are you devaluing WN's gesture because it accrues benefit to them?
Apr 27, 2018, 1:05 pm
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Apr 27, 2018, 3:09 pm
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Apr 27, 2018, 3:41 pm
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other Airlines do these things, but don’t put the stories out on the wire for everyone to fawn over.
Apr 27, 2018, 3:54 pm
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I believe a few passengers ran to the press with this before SWA publicly acknowledged anything. IIRC the same pax who did FB live was quoted in a story about the check.
Apr 27, 2018, 4:04 pm
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Maybe you're right. Maybe they all do it and it never gets reported.
But I think it was a unique gesture from an industry that generally begrudges even giving their best customers an upgrade. Or do you have another explanation for the constant devaluation of FF benefits?
And the idea that if a business accrues goodwill by some corporate action it renders the action entirely self-serving is certainly not shared by these passengers any more than by a town where a corporation cleaned up after itself instead of creating another EPA Superfund site.
Apr 27, 2018, 8:41 pm
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Apr 28, 2018, 10:52 am
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Apr 28, 2018, 1:21 pm
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And another article about passenger suing SouthWest.
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-...hwest-airlines
Pretty sad.
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-...hwest-airlines
Pretty sad.