Posted on 12/27/2022 6:04:19 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said Tuesday on CNN’s “Situation Room” that the government will hold Southwest Airlines accountable as they canceled thousands of flights over a system meltdown.
Buttigieg said, “I conveyed to the CEO our expectation that they are going to go above and beyond to take care of passengers and to address this. They indicated a number of issues that they’re having with systems, legacy systems for managing their schedule and where their crews are, but the bottom line is the rest of the aviation system has been on the road to recovery since the worst days of the storm going into Friday of last week. As of today, as I’m looking at the different airlines, most of them are in the low single digits in terms of cancellation rates, averaging about five percent for all of the other airlines. For Southwest right now, we appear to be north of 70 percent. So their system really has completely melted down. And I made clear that our department will be holding them accountable for their responsibilities to customers, both to get them through this situation and to make sure that this can’t happen again.”
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Who died and made you Mussolini, Pete?
SW Airlines is about discover that you can’t be “woke” or “PC” enough to satisfy the Stalinist bureaucracy. They are going to rend their pound of flesh.
“...never happen again” and the US gov’t are totally incompatible.
Yes, for a flight less than 3 hours, I can get by without stewardess or steward serving chips and pop.
And how exactly, Powder Puff Pete, do you plan to do this?
Are you going to miraculously update their legacy systems to resolve the issues?
Buffoon. All hat no cattle..
SW scheduling [of planes and crew] is apparently a legacy IT real-time nightmare.
Somebody has to deploy the emergency exit chutes.
I heard on the news that the scheduling system for planes does not talk to the scheduling system for crews.
“He got the job because he’s gay and thats it”
He doesn’t sound so happy.
-PJ
So Buttiplug wanted Southwest to continue to fly to airports that were shut down because of the weather? What a jackass!
In dire emergency, the 2 pilots can exit the locked door and open the exits.
My close friend that works for SW states that the Airline bosses have been hiring less than adequate and unqualified minorities to fill service positions that require intelligence, courtesy and a willingness to work. Put these people in mid to upper level management positions and the entire system will collapse. My opinion is that this hiring attitude for political correctness is detrimental to the once well managed Airline.
He really F’d up South Bend.
Herb Kelleher is turning over in his grave.
I got to meet him personally, probably the most impressive person I’ve ever met.
How many people did SouthWest lay off due Government Covid mandate? Government is more often the cause of problems than a solution.
“My ex-wife was tarded, she’s a pilot now.”
Life is imitating art.
Accountable for the winter weather that is SUPPOSEDLY warming.
Accountable for the shortage of flight crews because not everyone wanted to take the clot shot to keep their jobs?
If it was a scheduling and IT problem wouldn’t this have been happening every day for months/years, and not just the past week?
Or immigration enforcement.
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