Southwest Airlines in a nationwide meltdown

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Awesomeness at Dallas/Ft worth. I got on a flight. Im not in a flee bag motel. Went from standby to standby. Im in an exit row. Not my typical 2A.

Now you know…take a direct flight.

This is victory. Now bring me a double!

Congrats!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think people need to grow up. The storm didn't pop up out of nowhere. You knew the storm was coming you knew it was a busy travel period. You fly Southwest because of the price. The prices are typically cheaper because they don't have several extra aircraft like the legacy carriers, and they don't utilize the hub and spoke model like many of the legacy carriers. They also don't have the luxury of the smaller regional jet partners.

You flew when you knew there would be bad weather and a busy holiday week. Then you say they should have preemptively done more, but no can say what that more is.
Imagine the S show and S slinging that would be going on if they had preemptively canceled all flights and then the storm turned out not be as bad as was predicted. Which if we are Monday morning quarterbacking is what they should have done. And then everyone would be shedding tears about how they didn't get to see XYZ and Southwest ruined million of peoples holiday.

There system went down. Have you never dealt with a system outage at your work. The scale of the company is why it is on the news. If it was Jim Bobs Air Charter Service and he ran on SalesForce and that went down, it wouldn't be the top news story.

Clearly you haven’t read a single news article explaining the issues going on.

I have, still doesn't change the fact that people were rolling the dice on risky travel period. A literal and figurative snowball occurred across a large swath of the country. There system crashed. What part am I not getting right?

Midway is an S show for Southwest right now. Ohare is an S show for other airlines right now.

At BWI there were roughly 150 flights schedule today. SouthWest has about 2/3s of those. Of course their lines are going to be exceptionally long when something like this happens. Same as at Midway.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think people need to grow up. The storm didn't pop up out of nowhere. You knew the storm was coming you knew it was a busy travel period. You fly Southwest because of the price. The prices are typically cheaper because they don't have several extra aircraft like the legacy carriers, and they don't utilize the hub and spoke model like many of the legacy carriers. They also don't have the luxury of the smaller regional jet partners.

You flew when you knew there would be bad weather and a busy holiday week. Then you say they should have preemptively done more, but no can say what that more is.
Imagine the S show and S slinging that would be going on if they had preemptively canceled all flights and then the storm turned out not be as bad as was predicted. Which if we are Monday morning quarterbacking is what they should have done. And then everyone would be shedding tears about how they didn't get to see XYZ and Southwest ruined million of peoples holiday.

There system went down. Have you never dealt with a system outage at your work. The scale of the company is why it is on the news. If it was Jim Bobs Air Charter Service and he ran on SalesForce and that went down, it wouldn't be the top news story.

Clearly you haven’t read a single news article explaining the issues going on.

You are an idiot and need to stop writing

Yesterday SW canceled 70% of flights. Next highest was spirit at 20%. American was 0 and other airlines 0-10.

You do not understand the root of this issue and are talking out of your ***

I have, still doesn't change the fact that people were rolling the dice on risky travel period. A literal and figurative snowball occurred across a large swath of the country. There system crashed. What part am I not getting right?

Midway is an S show for Southwest right now. Ohare is an S show for other airlines right now.

At BWI there were roughly 150 flights schedule today. SouthWest has about 2/3s of those. Of course their lines are going to be exceptionally long when something like this happens. Same as at Midway.

[Anonymous]

You are an idiot and need to stop writing

Yesterday SW canceled 70% of flights. Next highest was spirit at 20%. American was 0 and other airlines 0-10.

You do not understand the root of this issue and are talking out of your ***

[Anonymous]

It’s true that a few days ago the big storm f-ed up flights all over the place. We had to reschedule a cancelled flight and then faced delays. It was everywhere - even before the SW sh1t show.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Some of these posts are just so classic DCUM. It's YOUR fault you are suffering and stranded in an airport due to an unprecedented confluence of circumstances during one of the busiest times of the year. You totally should have planned better.


This and the number of morons on the news who put their oh so "vital/life saving medications" in their check luggage. And are so distraught because they can't get their luggage. I don't know why the news casters don't call them out and use it as a PSA to say that is DUMB plan.

I took two additional days worth of my son's medication (which is a controlled substance, so we have limited ability to refill prescriptions in advance of running out) in my purse. I didn't have more of the meds because the pharmacy would not refill early. I packed no meds in luggage, but did not expect to be stranded for more than 2 days anywhere. Luckily, my son's doctor was able to connect me to a provider licensed in the state in which we have been stranded (and will continue to be until Thursday AM) who was willing to write for a few additional doses.

I said nothing about your scenario at all. I was specifically talking about people who put their meds in checked bag which you didn't do. You had bad luck, sorry about that.

I too take a controlled substance and travel all of the time. I peel of a dose once a week, typically Sunday evening and have a little stock pile that I use for emergency back up. I rotate through that bottle, so I don't have "stale" meds.

How on earth do you have a backstock of meds???

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Some of these posts are just so classic DCUM. It's YOUR fault you are suffering and stranded in an airport due to an unprecedented confluence of circumstances during one of the busiest times of the year. You totally should have planned better.


This and the number of morons on the news who put their oh so "vital/life saving medications" in their check luggage. And are so distraught because they can't get their luggage. I don't know why the news casters don't call them out and use it as a PSA to say that is DUMB plan.

I took two additional days worth of my son's medication (which is a controlled substance, so we have limited ability to refill prescriptions in advance of running out) in my purse. I didn't have more of the meds because the pharmacy would not refill early. I packed no meds in luggage, but did not expect to be stranded for more than 2 days anywhere. Luckily, my son's doctor was able to connect me to a provider licensed in the state in which we have been stranded (and will continue to be until Thursday AM) who was willing to write for a few additional doses.

I said nothing about your scenario at all. I was specifically talking about people who put their meds in checked bag which you didn't do. You had bad luck, sorry about that.

I too take a controlled substance and travel all of the time. I peel of a dose once a week, typically Sunday evening and have a little stock pile that I use for emergency back up. I rotate through that bottle, so I don't have "stale" meds.

How on earth do you have a backstock of meds???

I have the same question.

[Anonymous]

I’m one of the lucky ones. We drove. It *ONLY* took us twelve hours on I-95 from Boston. There was a nasty accident in Maryland north of Baltimore. The people in that car were definitely having a worse day. Probably their last, from the looks of it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:After a canceled flight from sea to bwi on Alaska on Sunday, I rebooked on sw for Thursday, then I panic booked another flight on United for Friday. Think I should even try to take the Thursday sw flight? Or just cancel it now and take the Friday flight. It’s an early morning flight and I’m solo with a toddler so I’d hate to get to sea and have it cancel then, which is what happened to us on Sunday. Ughhh I just want to get home!

I would assume.the Thursday SW flight will be cancelled. They probably won't be flying a near normal schedule until Sunday/Monday.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Some of these posts are just so classic DCUM. It's YOUR fault you are suffering and stranded in an airport due to an unprecedented confluence of circumstances during one of the busiest times of the year. You totally should have planned better.


This and the number of morons on the news who put their oh so "vital/life saving medications" in their check luggage. And are so distraught because they can't get their luggage. I don't know why the news casters don't call them out and use it as a PSA to say that is DUMB plan.

I took two additional days worth of my son's medication (which is a controlled substance, so we have limited ability to refill prescriptions in advance of running out) in my purse. I didn't have more of the meds because the pharmacy would not refill early. I packed no meds in luggage, but did not expect to be stranded for more than 2 days anywhere. Luckily, my son's doctor was able to connect me to a provider licensed in the state in which we have been stranded (and will continue to be until Thursday AM) who was willing to write for a few additional doses.

I said nothing about your scenario at all. I was specifically talking about people who put their meds in checked bag which you didn't do. You had bad luck, sorry about that.

I too take a controlled substance and travel all of the time. I peel of a dose once a week, typically Sunday evening and have a little stock pile that I use for emergency back up. I rotate through that bottle, so I don't have "stale" meds.

How on earth do you have a backstock of meds???

I said I peel off (don’t take and I store) a dose of week. Don’t know what your kid is on, but I am on Adderall 20mg 2/day. I typical don’t take the second dose on Sunday evening and there are others times I will skip a dose.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think people need to grow up. The storm didn't pop up out of nowhere. You knew the storm was coming you knew it was a busy travel period. You fly Southwest because of the price. The prices are typically cheaper because they don't have several extra aircraft like the legacy carriers, and they don't utilize the hub and spoke model like many of the legacy carriers. They also don't have the luxury of the smaller regional jet partners.

You flew when you knew there would be bad weather and a busy holiday week. Then you say they should have preemptively done more, but no can say what that more is.
Imagine the S show and S slinging that would be going on if they had preemptively canceled all flights and then the storm turned out not be as bad as was predicted. Which if we are Monday morning quarterbacking is what they should have done. And then everyone would be shedding tears about how they didn't get to see XYZ and Southwest ruined million of peoples holiday.

There system went down. Have you never dealt with a system outage at your work. The scale of the company is why it is on the news. If it was Jim Bobs Air Charter Service and he ran on SalesForce and that went down, it wouldn't be the top news story.

Clearly you haven’t read a single news article explaining the issues going on.

I have, still doesn't change the fact that people were rolling the dice on risky travel period. A literal and figurative snowball occurred across a large swath of the country. There system crashed. What part am I not getting right?

Midway is an S show for Southwest right now. Ohare is an S show for other airlines right now.

At BWI there were roughly 150 flights schedule today. SouthWest has about 2/3s of those. Of course their lines are going to be exceptionally long when something like this happens. Same as at Midway.

My Southwest flight left Albuquerque on Wednesday the 21st, through Dallas to DCA, before the storm. My return flight was supposed to leave DCA on Monday (two days after the storm that didn't really affect DCA ended), through Houston (no lingering storm effects) to Albuquerque (no storm at all).

Am I not supposed to travel anywhere that might possibly be affected by weather ever? I purposefully chose routes that were less likely to be affected by winter weather.

Read the news, PP. The Southwest meltdown came AFTER THE STORM. It is STILL GOING ON because it was NOT ABOUT SNOW. It was about crappy tech, outdated systems and mismanagement.

In other words, it was NOT MY FAULT.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When there was that huge storm in early 2013 (Nemo, I think). I was connecting through BWI to get to RI. I had a two year old at home and had been away at conference. My flight got cancelled at the last minute and I overhead the guy in front of me saying he was just going to drive home to RI that night because he was worried his pipes would freeze. I offered him $100 to take me along and he took me for free (and thankfully his wife walked up right after we agreed on the plan). It was a terrifying drive. On parts of 95 north there was only one lane clear with 3ft drifts on either side. But I made it home and didn't have to sit around in Baltimore for 3 extra days.

That has literally nothing to do with this particular issue but ok

Yup, absolutely nothing to do with how you get home when your flight is cancelled and you are going to be stranded for days if you plan to fly southwest!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When there was that huge storm in early 2013 (Nemo, I think). I was connecting through BWI to get to RI. I had a two year old at home and had been away at conference. My flight got cancelled at the last minute and I overhead the guy in front of me saying he was just going to drive home to RI that night because he was worried his pipes would freeze. I offered him $100 to take me along and he took me for free (and thankfully his wife walked up right after we agreed on the plan). It was a terrifying drive. On parts of 95 north there was only one lane clear with 3ft drifts on either side. But I made it home and didn't have to sit around in Baltimore for 3 extra days.

That has literally nothing to do with this particular issue but ok

Yup, absolutely nothing to do with how you get home when your flight is cancelled and you are going to be stranded for days if you plan to fly southwest!

Stop flying people then for Christmas, just stay home, face time and that's it. You will save yourself money, time and all the headaches of travelling.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m one of the lucky ones. We drove. It *ONLY* took us twelve hours on I-95 from Boston. There was a nasty accident in Maryland north of Baltimore. The people in that car were definitely having a worse day. Probably their last, from the looks of it.

Driving on 95 was awful on Monday. Much worse than usual.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You are an idiot and need to stop writing

Yesterday SW canceled 70% of flights. Next highest was spirit at 20%. American was 0 and other airlines 0-10.

You do not understand the root of this issue and are talking out of your ***

Tell me what I don’t understand. Name one thing I stated that is wrong.