{"id":1790057,"date":"2022-12-29T17:03:07","date_gmt":"2022-12-29T22:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1790057"},"modified":"2022-12-29T17:03:15","modified_gmt":"2022-12-29T22:03:15","slug":"a-meltdown-a-year-for-the-last-five-or-six-years-southwest-pilots-blast-company-over-crisis-that-was-a-decade-in-the-making","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/a-meltdown-a-year-for-the-last-five-or-six-years-southwest-pilots-blast-company-over-crisis-that-was-a-decade-in-the-making\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018A Meltdown A Year For The Last Five Or Six Years\u2019: Southwest Pilots Blast Company over Crisis That Was \u2018A Decade In The Making\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">48<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fa-meltdown-a-year-for-the-last-five-or-six-years-southwest-pilots-blast-company-over-crisis-that-was-a-decade-in-the-making%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1790057&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>Officials at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/southwest-airlines\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Southwest Airlines<\/a> Pilots Association attacked the company for using outdated technology and processes that made it worse <a href=\"http:\/\/dailywire.com\/topic\/air-travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">flight<\/a> There were thousands of cancellations during the holiday season.<\/p>\n<p>The carrier announced plans to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/southwest-says-it-will-resume-normal-operations-on-friday\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">resume normal operations<\/a> On Friday, almost two-thirds (or more) of all flights were cancelled. This was despite severe winter weather conditions having already passed the United States before Christmas. Capt. Casey Murray commented during an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/markets\/southwest-airlines-pilots-association-cancelations-airline-not-prepared\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">interview<\/a> Fox Business was not \u201cprepared\u201d To deal with winter conditions and holiday traffic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnfortunately, this has been a decade in the making. We have sounded alarm bells, we have tried to get them to change processes,\u201d He added. \u201cIt\u2019s a combination of processes, outdated technology, and infrastructure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Murray agreed. \u201cone domino\u201d Falling can lead to a variety of problems. \u201cother issues,\u201d It is important to remember that every airline begins at the beginning \u201ceach day with enough pilots, flight attendants, ramp agents, customer service agents there to do the job.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Southwest uses an alternative to other airlines. \u201cpoint-to-point\u201d According to an, route model that avoids hubs but offers faster flights for residents of smaller cities. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/12\/28\/travel\/southwest-airlines-flight-cancellations.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">analysis<\/a> The New York Times. The model has one drawback: there is less crew available in these cities. This can lead to ripple effects throughout the carefully managed network that relies on planes moving between airports.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe tools we use to recover from disruption serve us well 99% of the time,\u201d Murray stated. \u201cBut clearly, we need to double down on our already existing plans to upgrade systems for these extreme circumstances so that we never again face what\u2019s happening right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Share prices for Southwest have dropped nearly 9% over the past five trading days as executives attempt to implement damage control; the company\u2019s stock has plummeted more than 24% since the beginning of the year. Southwest plans to pay the thousands of passengers whose flights were cancelled, and those who had to stay in hotels or rent cars to get tickets with another carrier.<\/p>\n<p>Southwest Airlines Pilots Association Vice-President Capt. Mike Santoro claimed in a separate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/lifestyle\/southwest-pilots-assoc-vp-exposes-airlines-chaotic-cancellations-pilots-remain-dark\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">interview<\/a> Fox Business&#8217;s lackluster transparency has been particularly frustrating for union leadership. \u201cWe make calls and try to get insight, but all we\u2019ve been told is pretty much how many flights are canceling each day, which has actually changed today than what we were told yesterday,\u201d He commented.<\/p>\n<p>Santoro stated that Southwest has been through many changes. \u201ca meltdown a year for the last five or six years,\u201d Union officials have called executives to resolve scheduling issues and to improve technology infrastructure after severe weather disruptions. \u201cunavoidable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey needed to do this a long time ago,\u201d He stated. \u201cWe\u2019ve been warning them at the pilot\u2019s union.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The winter storm and subsequent cancellations that affected Southwest Airlines to a lesser extent than Southwest were during a busy holiday travel season. According to the FAA, there were 54 million passengers who planned to leave from airports between December 18, and January 3, which is a 20% increase on last year. <a href=\"https:\/\/media.hopper.com\/research\/christmas-2022-holiday-outlook\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">data<\/a> Hopper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officials in the Southwest Airlines Pilots Association blasted the company over outdated technology and processes that worsened flight cancellations over the holiday season, stranding thousands of customers across the nation as winter weather disrupted operations. The carrier, which announced plans to resume normal operations beginning on Friday, canceled nearly two-thirds of flights for several days, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":871201,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[7197,4093,5425,6170,6202,11972,4852,5888,8596,7374,6195,4346],"class_list":["post-1790057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-a","tag-blast","tag-company","tag-crisis","tag-daily","tag-decade","tag-making","tag-meltdown","tag-pilots","tag-southwest","tag-wire","tag-years"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1790057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1790057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1790057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/871201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1790057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1790057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1790057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}