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
Mexico, who cares
Yes, Southwest uses Houston Hobby.
Same for Dallas. Southwest barely uses DFW and focuses on Dallas Love Field instead.
Servicing two airports in the same city can get quite expensive.
“Houston’s George Bush Intercontinental Airport”
They also use Hobby so they are not leaving Houston.
>>>Are they firing DEIs? Silly question. They’ll all be promoted into the white guys’ jobs.
Are not DEIs automatically qualify to be Pilots b/c equity and inclusion?
But hey, it’s not a recession.
Nah--Houston was my first guess.
Hobby is just on the other side of the city. That makes two separate airports Southwest flies into/out of in the same city.
“They’re leaving Houston?!”
Nope.
Build back better!
That would be GEORGE BUSH Intercontinental to you ;-)
Southwest Airlines To Fire 2,000 Employees
“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
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LOL!
Their employees (all union) have all gotten, or will get, huge pay raises.
Bush is the main one. Hobby is secondary.
“Mexico, who cares”
Thousands of under 21 spring breakers.
Can you post a link to that?
What’s the difference in firing these employees and laying them off?
They can go to Haiti, similar climate.
All of their employees are union with big pay raises.
I read the other day the airlines were gearing up for a huge summer of flying public..........................
The article didn't mention anything about vacating Hobby. Maybe they plan to consolidate flights to Houston at Hobby..
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