• bombshell [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    Southwest isn't communism airlines, it's redneck hillbilly airlines.

    They don't compete with other airlines, their major competition is Greyhound buses.

    They don't have first class, either. Or assigned seating. They have the infamous "cattle call" boarding where the rednecks stampede over each other to get good seats. The cabin crew have a whole library of corny outdated jokes like this. The whole airplane smells.

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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      3 years ago

      Southwest isn’t communism airlines, it’s redneck hillbilly airlines.

      As a Houston resident, I'm here to tell you why you're totally fucking wrong. Houston, Dallas, Austin, and San Antonio are drowning in money and absolutely infested with Levittown-style suburbs full of white collar yuppies. Half of New York and a third of Chicago moved down here back in the 80s and 90s, along with a healthy chunk of the Bush Era Connecticut Mafia. Trying to call some debutante Queen of Love and Beauty on her third dressage event of the summer a redneck hillbilly sounds as sincere as calling out a Wall Street empty suit a Masshole Townie.

      They don’t compete with other airlines, their major competition is Greyhound buses.

      They're the forth largest airline in the country, competing directly with United, American, and Delta particularly through the Gulf Coast and Southwest. They've catered shamelessly to horny new money oil, tech, and finance guys since their inception. Southwest is the airline you fly your mistress in on while your wife is six martinis deep at the country club.

      They don’t have first class, either. Or assigned seating.

      They've been some of the last to adopt the obnoxious nickle-and-diming of the other major carriers in large part because they came out of the '01 airline meltdown and the '08 fintech collapse stronger than their peers.

      Incidentally, their planes had some of the most comfortable and generous seating accommodations years after the competition tried to stack people like cord wood in the rear of the plane.