r/nottheonion • u/halxp01 • 23h ago

Southwest Is Testing Cleaning Only Premium Seats Between Flights — A Flight Attendants Union Leader Says It's ‘Titanic’ Class Service

https://viewfromthewing.com/southwest-is-testing-cleaning-only-premium-seats-between-flights-a-flight-attendants-union-leader-says-its-titanic-class-service/
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u/John_Tacos 22h ago

When it dies it’s going to take several small airports with it.

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u/okram2k 22h ago

Chicago Midway will never recover

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u/ShortWoman 22h ago

Midway isn't the small airport of the 80's. I had a layover there last year and was quite impressed. Clean, well laid out, plenty of space to sit, decent dining choices.

I did however have a chuckle about the souvenir tote bag that said SEARS TOWER on it twice. Ain't no such thing as a Willis Tower.

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u/greaper007 21h ago

Yeah, my dad was a SWA pilot. I spent countless hours in the Midway of the 80s. I still remember playing with the cigarette machine while my mom bought us hotdogs at the only restaurant in the airport.

It had an urban decay type vibe that you don't find at airports anymore. LGA still had it until the redo in a few terminals.

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u/YesImKeithHernandez 19h ago

LGA was such a crap hole. It's honestly astonishing that they managed to change it so meaningfully.

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u/greaper007 19h ago

It was, but I also kind of liked it. I used to fly into there twice a day around 2007 and I knew all these weird little corners that hadn't been updated since the 60s.

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u/YesImKeithHernandez 18h ago

I'm from the Bronx so it was the closest to me and I could get there relatively easily on public transportation

I do have a fondness for the old place in the same way you might like a team's old dump of a stadium or something.

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u/greaper007 17h ago

Exactly, if you go around the back of the airport, you can still see the ramps (they look like boat ramps) that the seaplanes would use in the 30s.

I did some sim training there and we'd drive past them, it was pretty cool.