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"The way Southwest Airlines has treated its flight crews can only be termed 'despicable,'" said Montgomery. "We know the demands of holiday travel. We know winter storms. And believe me, we know about stepping up and putting in long work hours when we are called to do so; ...
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In 2022, during the peak winter-holiday travel season, Southwest Airlines’ operations were thrown into chaos after storms forced carriers across the country to cancel flights. But as other airlines got back on their feet quickly, Southwest’s problems persisted because the airline relied on ...
Southwest Airlines pilots union official describes how problems snowballed 03:39 Southwest scrapped fewer than 50 flights Friday as it rebounded from one of the most severe aviation industry breakdowns in recent years. But with a jump in the number of trips scuttled on Monday, passengers...
Former National Transportation Safety Board member Bruce Landsberg said at a separate safety event this week that no common theme has emerged in recent incidents. "What this reinforces is the need to be sure that everybody is paying attention to what's going on,...
The Chairman, CEO and President of Southwest Airlines, Nick Stanage, said, “With respect to our fourth quarter 2021 revenue outlook, while there are lingering effects from the summer COVID-19 surge and recent operational challenges, we are encouraged with renewed momentum in leisure and business...
“If airline managers had planned better, the meltdown we’ve witnessed in recent days could have been lessened or averted.” The other large U.S. airlines use “hub and spoke” networks in which flights radiate out from a few major or hub airports. That helps limit the reach of...
giving it a flexibility and efficiency not available to its larger rivals. But it also made it most susceptible to Boeing’s substantial problems in recent years – both a 20-month grounding of the 737 Max in 2019 and 2020 following two fatal crashes, and a slowdown in production this year...
A spokesperson for Southwest Airlines said the recent winter storm is to blame for the cascade of cancellations. “As the storm continued to sweep across the country it continued to impact many of our larger stations and so the cancellations just compiled one after anothe...