Just for fun, track this one. Chicago to Oakland via most of the east coast and Texas.
Just for fun, track this one. Chicago to Oakland via most of the east coast and Texas.
Not too unusual for SWA. Take a look at SWA829 (routing: MCO-IND-MDW-LAX-OAK-PDX) and SWA640 (routing: RDU-BWI-DTW-MDW-BNA).
Southwest’s dispatchers are pretty aggressive about planning for best winds and pilots are good at sticking to the plan…I hear them refuse “direct” quite often.