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Re: Southwest Airlines |
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Posted by Hoghead on Sun Nov 8 06:00:37 2009, in response to Re: Southwest Airlines, posted by LuchAAA on Sat Nov 7 04:21:11 2009. All airlines do NOT use a minimal amount of fuel. NWA in particular does a much better job of having enough fuel. If the planes tanks are not big enough, a fuel stop might happen--such as a DC-9 flying from New York City to Minneapolis. If there is a serious unexpected ATC delay at Minneapolis, the 9 might have to go to Duluth to refuel. Southwest sent 2 planes on a less than 400 mile trip to an airport with known low visibility conditions and a main runway closed. And, they both had to backtrack all the way to Milwaukee for fuel. Ridiculous.The flights were 1140 & 3220, but FA apparently makes data available for only the past 7 days. The flight departure date was 10/29. I believe there is a good chance SWA is less than accurate in reporting flight delay information to the DOT. |
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