Southwest Cancels Flights To Hawaii

[Obie]

Cheap tickets are only good if you actually get to fly somewhere. If you want to sit in an airport for 4 or 5 days you can do that for free.

[HereOnThePrimalEdge]

4 or 5 days you can do that for free.

If you don’t count four or five days of airport prices for food & coffee, included, but not paid for by Southwest when they cancel yoiur flight.  But at least "Your Companion Flies Free! gets to sit next to you on a bench outside the McDonalds, because they might not once you board the plane.

[TomK]

Cheap tickets are great until you find they aren't. One big issue with SW is that they don't seem to have an agreement with other airlines to fly their passengers to their destination if SW can't do it. In other words, you're on your own if your flight gets canceled. The other majors have agreements that allow them to book their passengers on other flights if it becomes necessary. SW only has the ability to book the passenger on its own flights. And because their ancient software system was so overwhelmed, they couldn't even book hotel rooms for their flight crews let alone passengers so even their staff are left stranded along with their passengers.

[terracore]

southwest flight 981 San Jose to Lihue:

Aircraft Emergency (At the Hilo International Airport (PHTO/ITO) in Hilo):
HFD, ARFF, AMR, and HPD responding to a report of an Aircraft Emergency at the Hilo International Airport (PHTO/ITO) in Hilo.
Report of an aircraft with a reported fuel leak/lost of one engine enroute to land at the Hilo International Airport. Units are staging for aircraft arrival.

Update: Reported landed safe in Hilo.

[randomq]

That's it, from now on I'm only traveling to and from Hawaii by cruise ship!

[HereOnThePrimalEdge]

to and from Hawaii by cruise ship!

You read about the people who fell overboard from a cruise ship recently?  That never happens on a Southwest flight (that we know of)!

[TomK]

No, they get sucked out of the window instead.

[kalianna]

Or ground up in the engine:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/montgomery-...er-killed/

[TomK]

Or ground up in the engine:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/montgomery-...er-killed/

That wasn't SW though.

The incident I was referring to is described here - https://www.theguardian.com/business/201...ion-latest

Note that SW has had other issues with sudden depressurization.

[randomq]

to and from Hawaii by cruise ship!

You read about the people who fell overboard from a cruise ship recently?  That never happens on a Southwest flight (that we know of)!

I've been drunk on a cruise, but never *that* drunk. I suspect those were 90% murder or suicide attempts, both of which are safer for everyone else on a cruise.