Southwest Airlines has collapsed

[ORDER_66]

These fukks will be asking for another bailout soon . fukk them and anybody that love em, time to pull your bootstraps up Southwest and run your company in the 21st century

Or...or.. another company will absorb them and take over...

 

[The Intergalactic Koala]

Exactly. Rode greyhound a few times and hated every single moment of each time:

• Driver treats the route like Crazy Taxi
• Having to do Jet Li moves just to take a piss without pissing all over the damn place
• Cold as all hell (even when it's hot as hell on the outside)
• Too many weirdo passengers
• Folks all hanging out of the aisles like this is the magic school bus

I would crawl and hitchhike before I even set foot on a Greyhound.

 

[TRUEST]

FWIW, if you convince each person to fly internationally we can pretty much just say fukk the planet in our lifetimes.

A single transoceanic round-trip flight uses up a person's sustainable carbon footprint for the entire year.

Are you sure you understand what you’re saying?

 

[Mike Nasty]

Are you sure you understand what you’re saying?

He's Flight Shaming. It's the next new thing everyone will be upset about. Getting ready for being solely responsible for killing the planet because you went to France last year.

 

[beenz]

I flew from NYC to Chicago yesterday. Southwest is fukked up.

Our original flight was Christmas Day at 6 am. While on our way to the airport they sent a text that the flight was cancelled. It sucked since it was 3 am in the morning but at least we were able to turn around and go back home.

We rescheduled and found a flight at 2:30 pm the next day. The line to check the baggage was insane. I told my wife to take our 6 month old and talk to a rep. They were nice with us and had us check our bag outside to avoid the line and get to our gate.

Once at the gate, it became crazier. There was a flight attendant across from us in the gate that was stuck in nyc since Friday as they kept cancelling all his flights and he just wanted to get back home to Chicago. Simultaneously, Southwest kept pushing back our flight and they couldn’t give us any answers.

The pilots showed up, however they had to get on the intercom and ask numerous times if there any available flight attendants in the terminal. I’ve never seen anything like this and this went on for about an hour. Finally the off duty flight attendant across from us got up, went to the gate and I guess called his supervisor. We were able to take off as he threw on a southwest sweater and got to work.

Hope he got paid well for doing that as he saved our flight. The southwest flight after us got cancelled.

like I said, flying between here and dallas on SW is a breeze.

we had that blizzard and artic freeze last week and I was able to move my kids flights from last friday to last wednesday easily without having to pay extra money.

on top of that, I saw that flights went on sale, and I re-booked their flights going home to the SAME EXACT flight and I got a $160 credit due to the sales price being lower than what I originally paid.

 

[Serious]

This was a beautiful explanation

 

[Absolut]

One of my colleagues called me last night to say she has Covid and can’t come to the office. Traveling back into town from Xmas and she tested positive.

This shyt is really still around.

Just looking for an extra week vacay. Who cares about Covid if they are vaccinated

 

[Professor Emeritus]

Are you sure you understand what you’re saying?

If you calculate the total carbon output that humanity could produce year-to-year without creating runaway global warming, then divide it by the number of people, that would be the per-person sustainable carbon footprint. The average roundtrip flight to another continent creates a per-person carbon footprint equal to that annual number. In other words, if every person travelled overseas once a year, we would ensure catastrophic global warming even if our carbon output in every other facet of life was extraordinarily minimal.

Thankfully, most people don't travel overseas. But there are certain people working hard to normalize it among Westerners, especially Americans recently, which has already produced a large environmental burden that will only grow. And what becomes normalized in America then spreads to the rest of the world as the global middle class grows. Zero-emission commercial flight is nowhere near reality right now, and creating massive extra energy and other resource demands solely so we can travel blog is only going to make every effort to reel this shyt in worse.

He's Flight Shaming. It's the next new thing everyone will be upset about. Getting ready for being solely responsible for killing the planet because you went to France last year.

Do you have any argument other than coming up with a silly name?

A round-trip flight from the USA to Paris produces over 2,000 pounds of CO2 per person. Over 3,000 pounds if you're coming from the West Coast. We literally can't have everyone doing that or our lives are fukked. To have that kind of unsustainable impact solely because you wanted some travel photos is insanely selfish. What's your solution other than coming up with silly phrases online and then sticking your head in the sand?

 

[Mike Nasty]

Do you have any argument other than coming up with a silly name?

I didn't come up with the name, but damn you went in harder than I thought you would

Flight shame - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

What's your solution other than coming up with silly phrases online and then sticking your head in the sand?

What's your solution, other taking on the difficult task of not flying to Paris?

 

[detroitwalt]

Not when you have pre check+ CLEAR and are smart enough never to check a bag. I did carry on only for two weeks In South Africa. It’s a breeze when you know to move

How do you do this? What kind of bag do you have to carry enough clothes? I’m guessing you only took 1 pair of shoes?

 

[Mike Nasty]

How do you do this? What kind of bag do you have to carry enough clothes? I’m guessing you only took 1 pair of shoes?

You can put a week's worth of clothes in a duffel bag, boxers and socks on the ends. Put your second pair of shoes, laptop, tablet and toiletries in the "personal carry on" backpack.

 

[Jaylen Tatum]

Marcus from 5150 got stuck somewhere

 

[bnew]

Even if they start working on it now, your great grandkids will be the only ones to enjoy it if they’re lucky

If China can do it so can we.

 

[get these nets]

Saw the president of Southwest on TV this morning, the MFer had the nerve to say

Spoiler

*just jokes

 

[CashmereThoughts]

How do you do this? What kind of bag do you have to carry enough clothes? I’m guessing you only took 1 pair of shoes?

1 pair of shoes on my feet, 2 in the shoe compartment of my away bigger carry on. MAD clothes packed into the Cary on using the compression pad.

Clothes in my “personal item” bag.