{"id":2079,"date":"2011-01-12T07:31:51","date_gmt":"2011-01-12T15:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/mvp\/?p=2079"},"modified":"2011-01-12T07:31:51","modified_gmt":"2011-01-12T15:31:51","slug":"southwest-airlines-pilot-holds-plane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2011\/southwest-airlines-pilot-holds-plane\/","title":{"rendered":"Southwest Airlines Pilot Holds Plane"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The pilot responded with, \u201cThey can\u2019t go anywhere without me and I wasn\u2019t going anywhere without you. Now relax. We\u2019ll get you there. And again, I\u2019m so sorry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m speechless. Twelve minutes many not sound like a lot to you or me, but every second counts when you\u2019re an airline. Southwest can turn an entire plane around in about 20 minutes, so 12 minutes is half an eternity.<\/p>\n<p>I shared Nancy\u2019s story with Southwest, and a representative said the airline was \u201cproud\u201d of the way the pilot had held the flight. Again, most airlines would punish an employee who holds up the line for any reason.<\/p>\n<p>This a trip that was saved amid tragic circumstances by a compassionate pilot and an airline that supported his decision to hold a flight.<\/p>\n<p><i>Source:<\/i> <a href='http:\/\/www.consumertraveler.com\/today\/southwest-airlines-pilot-holds-plane-for-murder-victim%E2%80%99s-family\/'>Southwest Airlines pilot holds plane for murder victim\u2019s family<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I have a much, much smaller Southwest-favor to report: They gave me heart-topped straws (or toothpicks or coffee-stirrers or whatever they were!) to &#8220;plant&#8221; at our son&#8217;s wedding.<\/p>\n<p>Fly on, Southwest!<\/p>\n<p>(And thanks again.)<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The pilot responded with, \u201cThey can\u2019t go anywhere without me and I wasn\u2019t going anywhere without you. Now relax. We\u2019ll get you there. And again, I\u2019m so sorry.\u201d I\u2019m speechless. Twelve minutes many not sound like a lot to you or me, but every second counts when you\u2019re an airline. Southwest can turn an entire &#8230; <a title=\"Southwest Airlines Pilot Holds Plane\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2011\/southwest-airlines-pilot-holds-plane\/\" aria-label=\"More on Southwest Airlines Pilot Holds Plane\">Read more<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,704],"tags":[921],"class_list":["post-2079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lessons-for-living","category-thankful","tag-air-travel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJUJ-xx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2079\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}