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[quote=Anonymous]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.[/quote]

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