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Flew to Dallas for a meeting two weeks ago - morning flight for an afternoon meeting.  Meeting locale was slightly closer to DFW, so I booked on American instead of SWA to Love Field.  A couple of hours before my scheduled flight, I started getting notices...."delayed 30 minutes."  Then "delayed 45 minutes."  No biggie, I'd built in plenty of cushion.  Then "delayed 90 minutes."  Nope, that ate too much of my cushion.  Ditched the reservation, bought a ticket on SWA for a flight departing 10 mins after my original departure time.  Easy-peasy, no delays, got there in plenty of time.

Meanwhile, I'm actually IN my meeting, and still getting text messages - "your flight is now delayed three hours."  Then "your flight is now delayed four hours."  I don't know when it ever fucking took off, I don't care.

SWA has slipped, it's not what it once was, etc.  But by and large, I don't have experiences with it pulling shit like that, which I've had with American at a much higher rate.  Most of my travel is short domestic routes.  Take off on time, get me to my destination when scheduled.  That's 99%of what I'm asking for.  And American can't seem to do that with regularity.

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10 hours ago, Sam Lin said:

Just had 2 trips on AA where they emailed me way ahead with flight delays. I think both were due to DFW weather ground stops.

DFW is a complete and total weather shithole.  Going forward, I will avoid it at all costs, despite the fact that the geographical location is close to ideal for most of my travels.

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On 5/30/2025 at 10:02 AM, Brisketexan said:

Flew to Dallas for a meeting two weeks ago - morning flight for an afternoon meeting.  Meeting locale was slightly closer to DFW, so I booked on American instead of SWA to Love Field.  A couple of hours before my scheduled flight, I started getting notices...."delayed 30 minutes."  Then "delayed 45 minutes."  No biggie, I'd built in plenty of cushion.  Then "delayed 90 minutes."  Nope, that ate too much of my cushion.  Ditched the reservation, bought a ticket on SWA for a flight departing 10 mins after my original departure time.  Easy-peasy, no delays, got there in plenty of time.

Meanwhile, I'm actually IN my meeting, and still getting text messages - "your flight is now delayed three hours."  Then "your flight is now delayed four hours."  I don't know when it ever fucking took off, I don't care.

SWA has slipped, it's not what it once was, etc.  But by and large, I don't have experiences with it pulling shit like that, which I've had with American at a much higher rate.  Most of my travel is short domestic routes.  Take off on time, get me to my destination when scheduled.  That's 99%of what I'm asking for.  And American can't seem to do that with regularity.

AA will do the “oh you were booked in First Class and paid that fare? Well we rebooked you due to cancellation in middle seat steerage”. 
I loathe AA

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On 5/30/2025 at 11:57 AM, Sam Lin said:

Just had 2 trips on AA where they emailed me way ahead with flight delays. I think both were due to DFW weather ground stops.

In our family, when we book tickets, accounting for weather while flying through the South in the late spring is basically on par with dealing with Ohare in January. 

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I was expecting the worst, but…

After flying Singapore to San Francisco yesterday on Singapore Air, today I took AA:

SFO - LAX - AUS

Both flights on time (I’m in air to AUS).

Counter checkin service in SFO was excellent (he only charged me for 1 cat (travelled with 2) and didn’t do any baggage overage fees (was 5-10 lbs over on 2 of 4 luggage pieces).

Flight attendants have been great with the cats. Even giving extra free booze.

Only bad part was the terminal in LAX was basically a portable building that they bussed us over to the real terminal. And of course AAs total lack of on board entertainment.

If they were like this all then they might have a business*.

*they will probably lose my bag(s) and ruin it all.

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My flight to London on AA last week was delayed 2.5 hours (while we are on the plane) due to the luggage cart crashing into the side of the plane.
 

An old Russian dude having a diabetic episode mid-flight added an additional 2 hour delay (not blaming AA for that one). 

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2 hours ago, Fastbreak said:

I was expecting the worst, but…

After flying Singapore to San Francisco yesterday on Singapore Air, today I took AA:

SFO - LAX - AUS

Both flights on time (I’m in air to AUS).

Counter checkin service in SFO was excellent (he only charged me for 1 cat (travelled with 2) and didn’t do any baggage overage fees (was 5-10 lbs over on 2 of 4 luggage pieces).

Flight attendants have been great with the cats. Even giving extra free booze.

Only bad part was the terminal in LAX was basically a portable building that they bussed us over to the real terminal. And of course AAs total lack of on board entertainment.

If they were like this all then they might have a business*.

*they will probably lose my bag(s) and ruin it all.

Did the cats do OK?

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As much shit as AA deserves, at least they have more leg room than Hawaiian. I’m a little fella a 5’8” and my knees almost touched the seat in front of mine.

Don’t know when they decided to add more rows. It wasn’t like this the past few times. 

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On 6/5/2025 at 8:26 PM, Superhero said:

As much shit as AA deserves, at least they have more leg room than Hawaiian. I’m a little fella a 5’8” and my knees almost touched the seat in front of mine.

Don’t know when they decided to add more rows. It wasn’t like this the past few times. 

I'm 6'1", and I'm always pretty comfortable on AA, but I try to book main cabin extra.

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Two opposite experiences with AA in the past few days for me...

Last Thursday night flew ORD to DFW, after landing we taxied to the random holding area where we parked and eventually got to our gate 65 minutes later. I get it, they can't magically create a new gate just for us and tight turnarounds at existing gates are why I can fly to Chicago for an affordable $800. But we sat on the ramp for an hour under clear skies. WTF.

But then last night flying back from FL, severe weather was rolling into DFW and the entire crew was in super teamwork/cheerleader mode to get us boarded ASAP so we could beat the storms. We pushed back 15 minutes early and landed safely at DFW just as the storms were approaching. And we didn't have to wait for our gate, we simply landed and taxied right to it. Sometimes the stars align I guess.

 

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