The airline needs to do more to protect its ground crews. People need to be able to cycle in and out of the cold. In severe weather it’s unreasonable for workers to stay outside for extended periods. Home Airline News Southwest Airlines Pilot Union Calls For Strike Vote By Joe Kunzler Published For the first time in Southwest Airlines' history, the airline is facing a strike authorization vote with voting to start in May 2023. Our members work hard, they’re dedicated to their jobs, but many are getting sick, and some have experienced frostbite over the past week. More than 1,000 Southwest Airlines pilots picketed outside Dallas Love Field Tuesday in. Many of our people have been forced to work 16 or 18 hour days during this holiday season. By Alanna Quillen Published J Updated on Jat 10:24 pm NBCUniversal, Inc. They're protesting current working conditions that have them. The human factor also has to be a consideration. Southwest Airlines pilots say they are tired of saying 'sorry' on every flight. “When you’re dealing with sub-zero temperatures, driving winds and ice storms you can’t expect to schedule planes as if every day is a sunny day with moderate temperatures and a gentle breeze. If airline managers had planned better, the meltdown we’ve witnessed in recent days could have been lessened or averted. “When Southwest’s model changed” (from point-to-point), “preparation needed to change. The ground workers at Southwest Airlines are represented by Transport Workers Union (TWU). The Union is not willing to have their people blamed. If this part of the supply chain is not working, the snowball starts rolling and the whole chain breaks down. Ramp employees help planes park and handle the luggage. Ground operations in Denver were hampered by an unusually high number of absences among ramp employees.
But these votes are meant to scare customers, and the laws covering airline labor make it extremely rare. That led to the snowball effect that crippled operations.īut it was more than that. Pilots at Delta, American, and Southwest Airlines have recently voted to strike.
Southwest’s system, it turns out, could not keep track of where its crew members and pilots were after so many flights were canceled. What did happen?Īs soon as I heard how much worse Southwest was performing than their competitors, I knew there had to be an IT problem. But with the other models, bad things happening in one place can ripple through the system and lead to a cascading set of cancellations.
If there is a plane flying between Richmond Virginia and Cincinnati Ohio - and something goes wrong – only the passengers on that route are affected. When it comes to resilience – recovering from something bad that happens – the simplicity of point-to-point beats hub-and-spoke or point-to point-to-point. But the point of all those options is to maximize profitability, not resilience. Travelers at Baltimore Washington International airport deal with the impact of Southwest Airlines canceling more than 12,000 flights around the Christmas holiday weekend across the country and.
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