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RE: Unbelievable Jetway!

Yes, the dual bridges at <acronym title="OLD: Austin - Robert Mueller Municipal (AUS / KAUS) (closed), USA - Texas AND CURRENT: Austin - Bergstrom International (AFB) (AUS / KBSM), USA - Texas">AUS</acronym> and <acronym title="Dallas - Love Field (DAL / KDAL), USA - Texas">DAL</acronym> have been d...

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RE: TWA Operations Out Of ORD

ORD-RFD? I must admit that I'm too lazy now to look it up, but I take it as Rockford, IL. How long of a flight was that? About 15 minutes I'm guessing? Anyone with a timetable please let me know. It just seems like a wasted route to me.

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RE: WN "Major Announcement" Tuesday...

Well, I was at work tonight, but folks that I talked to after work said that at the message to the field in <acronym title="Baltimore / Washington - International (Friendship) (BWI / KBWI), USA - Maryland">BWI</acronym> tonight Gary was asked about the big announcement and he said that he would like...

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RE: Question About WN Larger Stations

Here at <acronym title="Baltimore / Washington - International (Friendship) (BWI / KBWI), USA - Maryland">BWI</acronym>, we have everyone associated with the pilot base, flight attendant base, ground mx that takes care of <acronym title="Baltimore / Washington - International (Friendship) (BWI / KBW...

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RE: WN "Major Announcement" Tuesday...

Wjcandee Ntspelich: You reference something regarding the ATA codeshare. What's up with that? Going well, not going well, what? I HAD heard that there are more pax being connected than expected. Is that not the case? Well, I'm not down at <acronym title="Business Express (USA)">HQ</acronym> a...

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RE: WN "Major Announcement" Tuesday...

Yeah, I was the one oddball from BWI who jumped up when Colleen was seeing who all was there.

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RE: WN "Major Announcement" Tuesday...

Silver - I guarantee you that it's not Hawaii, Gary said that himself in <acronym title="Oakland - Metropolitan Oakland International (OAK / KOAK), USA - California">OAK</acronym> last week. And remember your <acronym title="Southwest Airlines (USA)">WN</acronym> history, we did lay people off once ...

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RE: WN "Major Announcement" Tuesday...

I have heard the same thing, that it's an announcement that you'll remember where you were when you heard it. However, I didn't heard that it'd be at the MTTF @ <acronym title="Chicago - Midway International (MDW / KMDW), USA - Illinois">MDW</acronym>, out at <acronym title="Baltimore / Washington -...

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RE: Southwest To Announce Cities From PIT February 17

I would not count on <acronym title="Baltimore / Washington - International (Friendship) (BWI / KBWI), USA - Maryland">BWI</acronym>. We are not able to keep the ramp staffed properly for the current number of flights. We are hearing that growth is on hold even with the new terminal that is tenta...

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RE: Dogs On The Runway!

I was working an inbound flight from <acronym title="Fort Lauderdale - Hollywood International (FLL / KFLL), USA - Florida">FLL</acronym> a week or two ago that was delayed a good 45 minutes or so because of alligators on the runway. On a side note, a friend of mine that works at <acronym title="Orl...

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RE: WN's "fuelmizer" Modifications...

The only real other MTTF "news" was that there could be a second city added this year. All I can tell you is that it won't be <acronym title="Honolulu - International / Hickam AFB (HNL / HIK / PHNL / PHIK), USA - Hawaii">HNL</acronym>, NYC, or <acronym title="Colorado Springs - Municipal (Peterson A...

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RE: F/As A Sign Of The Times.....

Not at WN. I don't know the total age breakdown, but I know quite a few FAs that are in their twenties.

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RE: EI And BWI - Did I Miss Something?

Thanks for the info. While I'd heard about the <acronym title="Orlando - International (McCoy) (MCO / KMCO), USA - Florida">MCO</acronym> flights, I wasn't sure where the a/c were coming from. I guess this answers two questions. Hopefully they do return, as <acronym title="Baltimore / Washington - I...

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EI And BWI - Did I Miss Something?

Did I miss something and <acronym title="Aer Lingus (Ireland)">EI</acronym> quit serving <acronym title="Baltimore / Washington - International (Friendship) (BWI / KBWI), USA - Maryland">BWI</acronym>? I haven't seen their planes for the past week or so at work and have searched their website and ha...

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RE: De-incing Equipment At Southern USA Airports

Ed, I'm not sure if you're responding to my post, but nonetheless I'll clarify what I said. For us (WN) the captain has the ultimate decision to make if he feels that the a/c needs to be deiced. I didn't say that we have sprayed them in the summer, but while higly improbable, if I pilot were to requ...

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RE: WN - ATA Codeshare Launched To Over 200 City Pairs

I wasn't at work today once the flights started, by rumors were that we had quite a few bookings transfering to TZ codeshares today. So I'd say that there'll be more than 3 or 4 a day.

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RE: De-incing Equipment At Southern USA Airports

Keindy, no problem. Most of us in the industry, at least on these forums, love to talk about what we do. <img src="/discussions/graphics/wink.gif" ALT="Big grin"> The way that I understand it is that it has to do with the way that the in-wing fuel tanks are on the NGs. I'm not in mx nor am I M...

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RE: De-incing Equipment At Southern USA Airports

This question has to do with de-icing but not along the same line...not working in the airline industry or for an airport, I do not know what the procedures are. Example, here @ <acronym title="Indianapolis - International (IND / KIND), USA - Indiana">IND</acronym> planes get de-iced at the gate ...

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RE: Routes Southwest Dropped

JAN

Didn't they pull out of here all together?

I hope that we didn't pull out of JAN. Espicially since I sent about 100 people there last night on an a/c that I was turning.

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RE: Southwest To Use PIT's Concourse A

At work (<acronym title="Baltimore / Washington - International (Friendship) (BWI / KBWI), USA - Maryland">BWI</acronym>) a co-worker who used to work for PSA/US Express at <acronym title="Pittsburgh - International (Greater Pittsburgh) (PIT / KPIT), USA - Pennsylvania">PIT</acronym> said that some ...

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RE: Southwest To Use PIT's Concourse A

2X IAH

Don't think that'll be happening anytime soon, given the fact that we're closing down our IAH ops.

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RE: "Airline" The TV Show. Bad PR For WN?

Does anybody know if they will be filming at <acronym title="Baltimore / Washington - International (Friendship) (BWI / KBWI), USA - Maryland">BWI</acronym> during the first week in February? Yes. We started shooting season 3 at <acronym title="Baltimore / Washington - International (Friendsh...

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RE: WN Open Seating

My understanding is that it has to do with the initial phone resevation system. By not having assigned seats, reservation agents were able to handle a higher call volume in an equal amount of time since they did not have to search for specific seats for passengers. Greater operator efficiency meant ...

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RE: I Got The Misery; How Can Airport Employees St

Everything I do to try to stay healthy are things that others have said above. ColdEeze, balanced meals, get enough rest, stay hydrated, practice exceptionally good hygene, and (being on the ramp is beneficial for this one) avoiding the concourses as much as possible. Every now and then cases of ora...

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RE: Why Is American Airlines Gathering Written Dos

Its a DOT requirement, in case of an emergency o accident. When I flew <acronym title="Northwest Airlines (USA)">NW</acronym> <acronym title="Boston - General Edward Lawrence Logan International (BOS / KBOS), USA - Massachusetts">BOS</acronym>-<acronym title="Amsterdam - Schiphol (AMS / EHAM)...

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RE: Airlines Without Fatalaties

South West had a bad accident with a 737-325 Correction, Southwest had an incident at <acronym title="Burbank (/ Glendale / Pasadena) - Bob Hope (Lockheed Air Terminal) (BUR / KBUR), USA - California">BUR</acronym>. The way that it's been described to me (someone please correct me if I'm wron...

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RE: "Airline" The TV Show. Bad PR For WN?

i dunno but that girl Gina in <acronym title="Baltimore / Washington - International (Friendship) (BWI / KBWI), USA - Maryland">BWI</acronym> is hot! I'll make sure to tell her that there are in fact multiple threads on the internet about her hot-ness. I'm sure that she'll get a kick out of i...

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RE: Creative Tail Numbers

How about Hooters Air's N750WL? <center><a href="/open.file/485193/L/" target="_blank">View Large</a> <a href="/open.file/485193/M/" target="_blank">View Medium <IMG SRC="/photos/small/3/9/1/485193.jpg" ALT="Click here for bigger ...

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RE: Airports Underground Tunnels

PIT has a tunnel, although you can only be in it if you're on the train from landside to airside.

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RE: Southwest To Start PIT Service

We were told that we would definitely add one new city this year. We all thought it would be Charlotte, but <acronym title="Pittsburgh - International (Greater Pittsburgh) (PIT / KPIT), USA - Pennsylvania">PIT</acronym> will do fine. Ahh, but the employee newsline this week said "We will add ...

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RE: Wright Amendment - Does It Apply To Charters?

From: <a href="http://www.dallas-lovefield.com/lovenotes/lovechrono.html">http://www.dallas-lovefield.com/lovenotes/lovechrono.html</a> 1979 Southwest Airlines begins interstate service to New Orleans, Lousiana. Congress passes the Wright Amendment to the International Air Transportation Competition...

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RE: Will WN Add City In 2005?

Well, I just got done with my daily listen to the Employee Newsline message that Gary records each day, and he did state today on it "...expect a lot of change this year.... We will add at least one new city this year. Stay tuned in the near future for more information on that." So I guess that is t...

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RE: Skyhigh Airlines

At least Deleware finally gets scheduled commerical service back!

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RE: Southwest B732 Retired Yet?

yada yada yada.....I can dream, can't I...? There's a reason that you're at <acronym title="Business Express (USA)">HQ</acronym> in <acronym title="Dallas - Love Field (DAL / KDAL), USA - Texas">DAL</acronym> and I'm out on the ramp at <acronym title="Baltimore / Washington - International (F...

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RE: Southwest B732 Retired Yet?

The -300s will be with us for awhile. A long while.

NTS

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RE: Southwest B732 Retired Yet?

Monday, 1/17/05 will mark the final flight of N95SW. I'm not sure if that's the final -200 flight, but it's the day that we, as a company, are celebrating the end of our -200s years of faithful service. I still say that we should convert them to cargo and bounce them around the system to move mail/f...

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How Did Your Airline Ring In The New Year?

I'm assuming that most airlines will have rung in the new year in one of two similar fashions: 1) free "mini-glass" of champagne or 2) do nothing. I know that at <acronym title="Southwest Airlines (USA)">WN</acronym> we were stocking all of the late depatures out of <acronym title="Baltimore / Washi...

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RE: WN's Down Home Girl CEO?

Gary Kelly - Vice Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer Colleen Barrett - President Herbert (Herb) D. Kelleher - Executive Chairman of the Board Don't forget Colleen's other official title of Corporate Secretary. From what I've been told, she requested that this be added to her o...

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RE: WN's Down Home Girl CEO?

I think that since she's taken helm of the company we've been doing pretty good for ourselves, espicially given the state of the industry. Who cares what you look like, it's how you can perform your job. She seems to be doing just fine. And FYI, if you're ever around Colleen and do majorly mess up o...

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RE: Southwest And Airbus?

Nothing against Airbus, I love their planes. Well, most of them. But the only time that I think any of us will ever see one in <acronym title="Southwest Airlines (USA)">WN</acronym>'s colors would be if they were really, really trying to get <acronym title="Southwest Airlines (USA)">WN</acronym> to ...

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RE: Will WN Add City In 2005?

1. JAN is Jackson, <acronym title="Egyptair">MS</acronym>. 2. I'm with OPNLguy, we're hearing rumors of one, possibly two new cities next year out in the field. A lot of them have been mentioned above. But, from everything that I've heard, it's a rather short list of possibilities. 3. My opinion: Wh...

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RE: Which Airline Is Most Wealthy?

WN started operations on June 18, 1971. <acronym title="Houston - George Bush Intercontinental (IAH / KIAH), USA - Texas">IAH</acronym>-<acronym title="Dallas - Love Field (DAL / KDAL), USA - Texas">DAL</acronym>-<acronym title="San Antonio - International (SAT / KSAT), USA - Texas">SAT</acronym> wh...

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RE: Providence Airport Closed

In the end, we ended up having six diversions come in to <acronym title="Baltimore / Washington - International (Friendship) (BWI / KBWI), USA - Maryland">BWI</acronym> that night. It was quite a sight to finally leave work and have see our de-ice pad jam-packed with planes, while knowing that every...

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RE: How Did Your Airline Handle The 12/23 Storm?

WN <acronym title="Baltimore / Washington - International (Friendship) (BWI / KBWI), USA - Maryland">BWI</acronym> was taking hits mainly due to the weather pattern to the west. Although there were landing delays due to the local weather (rain). Only one plane had to be de-iced yesterday, so not too...

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RE: Diversions To PIT From DC Area?

The last flight that I worked before I went home for the day at <acronym title="Baltimore / Washington - International (Friendship) (BWI / KBWI), USA - Maryland">BWI</acronym> was, and I quote the captain, "on a ground hold due to weather heading west. Right now it's looking like anything from 10 mi...

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RE: Who Is Muarry Avation?

Murray Aviation is a highly efficient and dedicated on-demand <acronym title="Fargo - Hector International (FAR / KFAR), USA - North Dakota">FAR</acronym> Part 135 Air Carrier with door-to-door capabilities intended for one purpose: To assure that your productivity and transportation needs are fulfi...

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RE: What Does O&D Mean & Importance To Airlines?

O&D = Origin & Destination, basically the # of pax that start and/or end their trips in that city. It's important for many reasons, but one of them particularlly, espicially since more airlines are going point-to-point is that it can be a large factor in determining route structure and frequencies. ...

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RE: Big Green Plane At LHR

Airlines lend the police real planes for these exercises. And then sometimes the police forget to check that there's no live ammo left on the ramp. <img src="/discussions/graphics/frown.gif" ALT="Sad"> I was at <acronym title="Dallas - Love Field (DAL / KDAL), USA - Texas">DAL</acronym>...

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RE: Finding WN One-Stop City

I can look it up for you if you have the lfight #.

NTS

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RE: Will WN Acquire Some Of TZ's 737-800s?

Yup, 2H4 hit it exactly on the head. Thanks for the clarification there. I just load em and push em, don't know too much about the inner workings, at least all of the electronic stuff.

NTS

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