{"id":1001270,"date":"2008-06-26T08:20:20","date_gmt":"2008-06-26T13:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/?p=1001270"},"modified":"2008-06-26T08:20:20","modified_gmt":"2008-06-26T13:20:20","slug":"ad-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/travel\/2008\/06\/26\/ad-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Ad of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/southwest.png\" alt=\"Our low fares really are low\" title=\"southwest\" width=\"573\" height=\"441\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1001268\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/southwest.png 573w, https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/southwest-150x115.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 573px) 100vw, 573px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>What sort of topsy-turvy world are we living in when Southwest is the service leader?<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not a hugely price-sensitive customer, which is why I stayed off Southwest until this year (plus they don&#8217;t fly to any New York City airports.) But I absolutely hate being nickel-and-dimed. I likely wouldn&#8217;t notice if an airline just raised its fares $20 across the board, but I absolutely do notice every time an airline tries to charge me extra for something as trivial as a bag check, buying a ticket over the phone, or packing 51 pounds instead of 49-pounds. Judging by the reactions of customers in line with me, I&#8217;m not the only one who notices and has changed my flying preferences either. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What sort of topsy-turvy world are we living in when Southwest is the service leader?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[47,48],"class_list":["post-1001270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel","tag-airlines","tag-southwest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1001270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1001270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1001270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1001270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}