Call in a NASCAR pit crew in the dead of night to replace double the tires while the union is locked out of the facility. Problem solved.
SWA was better as a non-union airline, one of the reasons you never see Southwest flights when you are flight-shopping on Orbitz, Travelocity, etc. When American had the first publicly-accessed flight scheduling database, Southwest was left out of any flights or connections because they were non-union. If you want to know where Southwest is going, you have to check their schedules separately.
Not true. That wasn't why Braniff and American conspired against them. Or why Southwest wouldn't do interchages with the others.
Southwest started flying in 1971. Flight attendants were the second group to unionize (1975). For many years, Southwest was more heavily unionized with Delta. Delta didn't have any problems playing with the heavily unionized carriers.
One should also remember that in the mid-70s, airlines had their own, separate reservation systems which they didn't even make available to travel agents. Sabre (American), Datas (Delta), and Apollo (United) were the main players TWA had the lesser known PARS). United first made their system available to travel agents in 1976.