{"id":11162,"date":"2018-10-30T14:33:05","date_gmt":"2018-10-30T14:33:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/?p=11162"},"modified":"2018-10-30T14:33:05","modified_gmt":"2018-10-30T14:33:05","slug":"orlando-magic-players-and-southwest-airlines-share-some-love-at-the-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/state-news\/florida\/orlando-magic-players-and-southwest-airlines-share-some-love-at-the-airport\/%20","title":{"rendered":"Orlando Magic Players and Southwest Airlines Share Some Love at the Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Fournier and Ross in the cockpit.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Terrence Ross\u2019 Twitter handle, @TFlight31, is one of today\u2019s more fitting NBA social media names considering the 27-year-old has \u201ctaken flight\u201d innumerable times throughout his NBA career \u2013 most notably when he won the slam dunk contest during his rookie year.<\/p>\n

Now, in his seventh NBA season, that Twitter name \u2013 while still very applicable to what he does on the basketball court \u2013 could refer to something even more literally connected to “flying.”<\/p>\n

Ross, along with teammate Evan Fournier, assisted Southwest Airlines staff at Orlando International Airport during an outbound flight to Austin, Texas. Gate 123, to be exact, was rocking throughout the afternoon, as the two Magic guards welcomed Flight 2392\u2019s passengers, scanned their boarding passes, helped marshal the aircraft and took pictures with dozens of fans.<\/p>\n

\u201cFirst time the correlation (to his Twitter handle) actually made sense (that way) was today,\u201d Ross said with a chuckle. \u201cIt was fun, it was amazing. Everybody\u2019s showing love and having a good time doing it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fournier, too, had a blast spending time with Southwest customers and employees, who he now has even greater appreciation for after seeing how well they do their jobs and how hospitable they are with all of their guests.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou definitely learn some stuff,\u201d he said. \u201cThere\u2019s so much more than just getting inside the plane and just flying it. There is a lot of stuff to know.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI got to get inside a cockpit, went to the tarmac, it was fun,\u201d the Frenchman added. \u201cIt\u2019s always fun to share this moment and meet the fans.\u201d<\/p>\n

Also, at the airport to hand out souvenirs and help make this event even more memorable for all the customers were Magic Community Ambassador Bo Outlaw, STUFF the Magic Mascot and the Magic\u2019s SunPass Blue Crew.<\/p>\n

Just like the Magic, Southwest is known for its superior customer service. In fact, Southwest has ranked No. 1 among low-cost carriers in customer satisfaction the last two years, according to research done by J.D. Power.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe love having the Orlando Magic out here to the airport with us,\u201d said Mackenzie Means, a business consultant on the experiential marketing team at Southwest. \u201cSouthwest is all about hospitality and surprising and delighting our customers every day. So, bringing out our great partners at the Magic delivers on that promise and just really creates a fun atmosphere in our terminal.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s really a great fit for both brands because that hyper-focus on the customer experience and hospitality \u2013 making people feel like they are at home when they are in your home \u2013 that\u2019s just a great mash-up of two different brands,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Terrence Ross\u2019 Twitter handle, @TFlight31, is one of today\u2019s more fitting NBA social media names considering the 27-year-old has \u201ctaken flight\u201d innumerable times throughout his NBA career \u2013 most notably when he won the slam dunk contest during his rookie year. Now, in his seventh NBA season, that Twitter name \u2013 while still very applicable […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11164,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[116,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-front-page-slider","category-florida"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Orlando-Magic-photo-4-magic-and-southwest-group-photoedit.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11165,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11162\/revisions\/11165"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}