Southwest Airlines gave us a heads up yesterday about three new routes it's planning to start in March from PHL. The new cities are Austin, San Antonio and St. Louis. The once-a-day flights to the two Texas cities would be the only nonstops from PHL. Southwest also is changing its boarding procedures, automatically putting travelers who choose to pay $10 to $30 per flight segment in the "A" boarding group. Its most frequent travelers also will get the same perk. Read more here.
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Southwest will add three new PHL routes next year
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Southwest is great; always thinking, always improving unlike the brain dead legacy airlines.
Southwest should open a PHL to Alberquerque route; lots of Philadelphians have been flocking to New Mexico, particularly Santa Fe, and there are no direct flights. The last time we went we got stuck in Dallas, thanks to an incompetent, and unrelentingly rude and unhelpful American Airlines.
Posted by Jim Donohue | November 8, 2007 1:45 PM
Posted on November 8, 2007 13:45
It's getting to the point where I will intentionally pay more money for a Southwest flight (which is rare to begin with) in order to spite USAirways.
Two reasons I love Southwest:
1. I had to change my flight a few weeks back. I went to Southwest's site and changed the day of my return flight. It took 5 minutes and it was completely free. Try changing your flight with USAirways. You deal with rude people on the phone who charge you an automatic $100 fee plus the any difference between the current rate and the rate you paid which, of course, is always magically higher.
2. Despite PHL's reputation as a delay-prone airport, my Southwest flights have always been on-time or early provided that the weather is cooperating. EVERYTIME I fly USAirways out of PHL, the flight is delayed.
For these two reasons alone, even if Southwest was consistently more expensive than USAirways (which it isn't), I would STILL choose Southwest.
Posted by Mike | November 12, 2007 10:25 AM
Posted on November 12, 2007 10:25