Nuts About Southwest

When can we expect "A Day in the Life of Blog Boy"? I've always wanted to know how he posts to the blog using stone tablets... :D

Indeed, our Flight Attendants play a very important role in the turn and in all our daily operations. While we focused on the ramp for this video, stay tuned for "a day in the life of a Southwest Flight Attendant"...coming very soon!

what about the flight attendants? they do a vital job during the turn too!

Thanks so much Sandeep! We appreciate your write up on the blog!

Clever editing! I saw two different paint schemes on that single aircraft! Still, it's pretty impressive what you do. Here in Manchester I've watched as a 737 was stopped at the gate less than 30 SECONDS after wheels first touch the concrete. Of course, that means the captain needs to 'Whoa Nellie!' the aircraft to hit the correct turn-off from the runway!

I remember the days of the 10 minute turn around

Yet another fantastic and interesting video!

The late Lamar Muse wrote in his book, "Southwest Passage," about the birth of the ten-minute turn following the court-ordered charter shutdown and deal to sell the fourth 737 to Frontier:

"I had called a staff meeting to inform our supervisors that Southwest [... was] still dead in the water unless we could continue our every-hour flights in the Dallas-Houston market with on a three-aircraft fleet. I explained that the only way we could do that was to fly the airplanes fifty minutes and turn them in ten minutes, as opposed to the twenty-five minutes we were currently scheduling. Their response? We can, and we will! Would you believe that our flight completion and on-time performance factors actually improved after instituting the ten-minute turns into our schedule on May 15, 1972? It was a team effort lead by Bill Franklin [then the VP of Ground Operations, I believe]."