Posted on 12/26/2022 12:57:57 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27
Thousands of Americans are still in the midst of holiday travel woes following a winter storm rocking the United States leading up to Christmas weekend, but Southwest Airlines is under fire for having one of the highest volumes of cancellations.
Thousands of flights were delayed or canceled across the country leading up to Christmas, and the trend is still not over.
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“Those aren’t pillows...”
Winner, winner, chicken dinner. Hey, its the weather, what can you do?
My GF is a counter clerk for SW at BNF. She says the weather is horrific in several airports and her expertise is rerouting customers and she’s been working her tail off. She is getting paid triple time through the holidays to work though. SW tries but lately SW has been affirmative action hiring and the quality is commensurate with the affirmative action hires.
“I you have plenty of time, fly.”
If you want to get there on time, drive yourself.
May not have been just the weather.
There are rumors on social media about sick outs.
Merry Christmas, Your Flight Is Canceled!!!!
“SW has been affirmative action hiring and the quality is commensurate with the affirmative action hires.”
This is the dirty little secret of “customer service” issue in a wide variety of companies and industries.
It is the cluster that dare not speak its name.
“Under Fire,” like people are shooting guns at the flight attendants? “Under Fire,” like someone built a bonfire on top of the gate agents? Whatever happened to simple headlines like, “Southwest Airlines Heavily Criticized for Christmas Holiday Cancellations,” (like this doesn’t happen every year with bad Christmas weather.)
“Southwest Airlines under fire...”
Should have never let Hillary onboard.
And if they hadn’t canceled flights, and a plane crashed because of icing or lack of visibility, the article would be berating them because they allowed flights to take off in such conditions. Everyone knew this weather was coming if they paid even the slightest attention to weather forecasts and news reports.
The smartest thing to have done would be to cancel travel plans. I realize that is a hard thing to do when Christmas plans had been made months in advance and people were looking forward to being with family. But, most ended up canceling anyway because they never made it to their destination and spent Christmas in the airport or stuck on the highway in freezing weather. It’s winter. It happens.
Some of the worst service I've gotten from call centers in the USA are probably by affirmative action hires.
You can tell right off by the tone of voice which it's going to be.
No snow at BWI
Just cold
I am a retired commercial pilot that has flown DC-3sto 747-800 and all over the world.... My Take... S4!t Happens
It helps to read the article before posting
The airline gave some ticket holders the chance to ride in the wheel wells like the refugees desperately trying to flee from Biden’s Afghanistan debacle but they turned them down.
Martin: What do you think the temperature is now?
Candy: One.
(Scene on open farm truck bed later.)
Yet this seems to be just a Southwest problem.
I don’t fly a ton for my job right now, although I have two trips in January, both on southwest.
I’ve never had a significant issue.
About 18 months ago I was flying Southwest from Long Beach to Houston. There was a medical emergency mid flight so we landed in El Paso. We had to wait, masked no less, to get the FAA’s squeal of approval to disrupt perfectly planned air traffic.
2 1/2 hours trapped on a plane with a bunch of ROWDY Dodger fans. I was traumatized. Seriously.
The pilot did explain the long wait.
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