Originally Posted by
OscartheGrouch
Pelican,
I am starting to doubt your description of the incident in Seattle that you described. It went from you having to slam on the brakes and being cutoff (which again I would disaprove of) to "almost" a class "A" mishap. With no confirmation from the tower after you called them back that a conflict existed I am getting the feeling that your story has been embellished.
Oscar - We also had 160 Pax that needed to pull their teeth out of the seatbacks as witnesses (ok, maybe that is an embelishment). Doesn't take much for a Class A....swap wingtips and you've done enough damage to get into that category and that's what I'm talking about. Nobody was going to die, but it was unsafe and unnecessary.
As far as having a bias against SWA, I wouldn't read too much into it. I believe there is idiots at every airline and there are also really good people at every airline. I think that SWAs policy to cut corners to save gas & money is smart, but then you have a stray idiot in there that doesn't know how to temper that and does something stupid.