I believe that PHX works for Southwest. He may be a flight attendant now, but I don't believe that he always has been. And it's not unusual to have someone from the airport transfer to in-flight.
Here's why I think this: He has posted quite a bit of advice that has to do with ticketing and such, and some of what he has said are things that a flight attendant simply would not know. Not in that much detail. So either he was at one time a frequent flier on paid tickets (not an airline employee) or he has worked at the airport.
But, since he has been banned, I have come across a couple things he has posted that make me certain he does or has worked for an airline. In one post he used the term IRROPS for a flight delay. Some airlines use the term IROP, but it't the same thing. It means Irregular Opperations, and it simply refers to the flight being delayed or canceled. I know that there is probably going to be some frequent flier out there that knows what this term is, but there can't be that many.
But what really has given it away for me, and why I am sure he works for Southwest, was his last post about a part falling off of the plane. If you have not read that post here's the short summary. Someone posted claiming they had just flown on Southwest and while in flight took a couple pictures with their cell phone camera. In the pictures there is something that looks like is is outside the aircraft. To make a long story short it was proven (by Me) that it was simply something stuck on the lens. (I superimposed one image over the other, and object is in exactly the same postion in the frame) Anyway, the OP there kept insisting that it was some part that fell off of the plane, but she stopped when someone (I think Jimworcz??) said that the pictures were not actually of a part from the plane, and he was done with the post.
Someone recently posted something on there asking how do we even know it was on Southwest, that if there had been one of the winglets in view we would know. PHX previously had said he PM'd the lady and she gave him the times of the flight, and he was able to find what flight it was. OK, so far. That is easy enough to find on line. But, after the post about the lack of winglets, he said that the aircraft had left for it's next flight without delay, and that the aircraft was currently in the hangar getting winglets installed. It would take quite a bit of digging online to find what the next flight was, and actually since this was days later, it would not be out there at all. But the only two ways to know that the plane is in the hangar for winglets is either A- someone on Airliners.net happened to mention it,which if that't the case, it's time to play the lottery or B- he works for Southwest. And what seals this part of it for me is that even after he had the flight number from the info she gave, there is no way on the outside to find out the aircraft number or registry. So how else, other than working for the airline, would he be able to know that the same plane she flew on was now in the hangar?
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