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In response to "I haven't been paying too much attention, can someone explain what's going on? " by sycor

Southwest has been canceling 60-70% of their flights every day this week. The cause varies depending on the source

Posted by Fuzzy (aka mrfuzzy) Dec 29 '22, 07:18

Southwest mouthpieces are saying that the storm impacted them more than they expected and they need some time to get their planes and crews back into position.

Pilots and other staff are saying that the systems that manage the crew assignments are horribly outdated. Combined with cost-cutting (staff shortages), this was foreseeable and won't be easily fixed. There's also a possibility that some flight crews have hit their ceiling for flight hours this year.

No one seems to be able to provide a reliable estimate of when it will be corrected or what steps actually need to happen. They are simply saying that the cancellations are necessary to allow the system to reset. That might make sense for a day, two at the max. A week of this defies reasonable belief in that explanation.

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It's also been said that an additional problem is that they use a point to point rather than a hub system. If one point goes down, everything else is - Meg Dec 29, 08:03
i've seen the same on your IM.. bad systems that couldn't respond to extreme changes in scheduling. this is a long term problem too.. -- nm - colin Dec 29, 07:50
Yeesh. Sound like all that government bail money was used wisely the last time airlines were bailed out. -- nm - sycor Dec 29, 07:45 5
- They have been taking care of stockholders with dividends. -- nm - Qale Dec 29, 08:23
- The COVID money was to keep planes flying empty and to not lay people off, no different than the PPP money for other businesses. -- nm* - spamlet Dec 29, 08:01 2
  - I meant before that. I had forgotten about the COVID money. -- nm - sycor Dec 29, 08:03 1
    - buybacks (lining CEO's pockets at the expense of their employees) were so rampant in the airlines, Congress had to explicitly ban them as a condition - hollywood big shot Dec 29, 10:23
- you get a bonus! and you get a bonus!! and you gets a bonus!!! -- nm - Beaker Dec 29, 07:58
It's going to take that long to find anyone that can program in COBOL still. -- nm - JaxSean Dec 29, 07:41
agree to your IM. -- nm - St. Epiphany Dec 29, 07:28

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