Posted on 12/29/2022 2:38:45 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
Southwest Airlines Co. LUV 3.70%increase; green up pointing triangle executives said the airline is removing limits on ticket sales, rebuilding crew schedules and shuttling baggage as it gears up to resume its full flying schedule on Friday.
The airline canceled nearly two-thirds of its flights Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, part of an effort to dig out from a cascading meltdown after last week’s severe winter storm threw it into disarray. While other airlines were able to recover from the brutal weather within a few days, Southwest continued to spiral.
Southwest has canceled more than 15,000 flights in the past week, according to FlightAware. By midmorning Thursday, the airline had scrubbed 39 flights scheduled for Friday.
Southwest’s top executives told employees that shrinking down had helped. The operation has stabilized, and they said the airline is ready to ramp back up again.
Chief Executive Bob Jordan told employees Thursday morning in a video message that the smaller network is running well—95% of its flights were on time Wednesday—and that the airline is ready to return to normal on Friday.
“Together we did what we needed to do to set ourselves up to operate our regular schedule tomorrow,” he said.
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Time is a luxury they do not have.
Personally I hated their business model—but I grew up in the good old days when flying was a luxury product and a real treat.
Today’s airports and airlines are beta training for concentration camps.
Southwest was a great company. But it serves as a cautionary tale for what happens when you let the bean counters run things.
Sometimes we make normal assumptions, like with all the great talent, business schools, management experience, that the CEO's are brilliant. Many are not. Same with politicians, we trust them to be smart enough to do correct things and be competent, ad boy have we learned that lesson when we see countless examples, Like kamala in charge of border policy and a gay mayor who couldn't fix a pothole running the most complicated transportation system in the world.
And it’s also a lot to do with people’s focus on short-term financial results, and keeping the stock price up at all costs.
Yep, it's led to many a corporate breakup.
It SW fixes the scheduling problem and throws around some refunds and discounts, they’ll get their business back.
Yeah, no. I had a family member stuck in this mess. SWA was totally unprepared for this. It was a total meltdown of all systems. Finally on the 4th day of this fiasco a SWA agent just called them, refunded tickets and told them to FO. SWA ruined the holiday plans of millions. A lot of customers are going to fire SWA for good. Guaranteed.
This approach worked for Gary’s first 8 years because we were still riding the strong wave that Herb had built.
It is a story being repeated again and again. Destruction of relationships.
But, it is a reminder to us to build relationship now. Invest in people, not govt or wall street. We need to get involved locally. Don’t let them isolate us. But remember people are risky investments, there will be losses as well as wins.
“A well regulated militia being necessary..............”
It is not about guns, it is about relationships.
The weather started it,
We have move of this coming. Small bumps are going to reveal a lot of problems in many areas.
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