Posted on 04/25/2024 11:53:15 AM PDT by george76
Southwest Airlines issued a press statement Thursday declaring their intention to fire around 2,000 employees and cancel service to four airports following financial difficulties.
“[W]e are implementing cost control initiatives, including limiting hiring and offering voluntary time off programs. We now expect to end 2024 with approximately 2,000 fewer Employees as compared with the end of 2023,” Bob Jordan, the president and CEO of Southwest Airlines
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Jordan also announced that the company was shutting down its service to three airports in the United States and one in Mexico. “[W]e have made the difficult decision to close our operations at Bellingham International Airport, Cozumel International Airport, Houston’s George Bush Intercontinental Airport, and Syracuse Hancock International Airport,” the president said in the press release.
The company is also planning to reduce its aircraft from its own fleet from 814 to 802 planes by the end of this year, the press release noted.
Jordan mentioned that he was grateful to the company’s over 74,000 employees who have continued to demonstrate the “Warrior Spirit to maintain a reliable and resilient operation as we adapt to aircraft delivery constraints and adjust to slower-than-planned growth for this year and next,” the press release read.
The company claimed in the press release that the rising labor costs “as well as pressure from planned maintenance expenses” had taken their toll in these difficult times. Not everything in the press release was gloomy. “While it is disappointing to incur a first-quarter loss, we exited the quarter with healthy profits and margins in the month of March,” Jordan noted
I was tempted to say another casualty of the biden administration economic policies. But it’s really obama’s policies.
He says nothing. Once the airline starts talking about a cockpit, his mind just goes to another place....
“ Houston was a big surprise.
They still fly out of Love Field Houston and didn’t even use Bush when I lived there
What new rules?
RIFs nation wide are coming. Big recession is coming.
“ There are two Houston airports. They will still go their main one.”
Yes still using Hobby I said Love but that’s Dallas
This could result in fewer airport Karen meltdown vids on YouTube 🙄
Mexico flights? They can’t complete with the US Government flights. Too much risk of collision.
Get ready everyone, airfares are about to double with the new rules that “protect the customers”.
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Yep, more government meddling with adverse effects on the consumer.
Wanna Get Away?
Rochester is only an hour and a half away.
Wow! I know of many Air Force pilots who retired and went to work for Southwest. I hope their positions are not in jeopardy, but again, wow.
“Bush is the main one. Hobby is secondary.”
“their” == “Southwest”
Not for Southwest. Hobby is the main airport for Southwest in Htown.
I wonder if Vonlane, a luxury bus service between Dallas and Houston has cut into Southwest’s business on that route.
It’s not called “South Worst” by employees for nothing.
Syracuse is a #87 market, Rochester is #76, Rochester wins the battle of the small markets.
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