Actually I don't recall me calling them bad there genius. When I travel for business the company purchases the ticket and I fly. I actually enjoy for the most part flying SWA, simple, always on-time and a friendly staff. As for the negatives I think not running a APU when it is 100 degrees out in Sacramento with 135 people on the plane is a bit cheap...Yes it is true they are very cheap on APU operations this crap of fuel savings should be thrown out the door when it is that hot out with no ground air cond. It cost $ 242.00 dollars in fuel/mtc cost to operate an APU in a 767 for one hour, so a 737 must be well under 200 bucks an hour, start the dam thing 15 minutes before departure instead of 5 minutes before departure and get the cabin cool.Wow...Southwest just can't win. They are heartless for charging obese folks for two seats, they are criticized for "flip flop wife beater" passengers, drunks. Then...they show airline where they turn away drunken, or stinky passengers. I found the school marm's pictures on her myspace page...although she wasn't too school marmish in those. In fact, I would imagine that there just might be something to the talk that "Princess Kyla" may have "pulled a Britney" on board.
But you know brown...I've flown a lot...and only on one airline (America West aka USAir) did a passenger emerge from the lav and announce to the entire rear cabin that she'd "lost 10 pounds in there". Also...you comment "I've flow Southwest a few times" leaves one to question...if they are so bad - why fly them at all?
So there you have it I will continue to fly them like I said I like em....
