Doesn’t add up. Severe weather and military training in the same airspace? Other airlines not affected? Odd to say the least.
Southwest operational meltdown as hundreds of flights canceled or delayed
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Re: Southwest operational meltdown as hundreds of flights canceled or delayed
#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's just a baseless rumor as far as I can see. SW says there's a staffing problem at "one location in florida," and blames weather otherwise. Meanwhile at least the SW pilot's union says "our pilots are not participating in any official or unofficial job actions." Union goes on to say the disruption is because of SW's "bad management." Given that the people who are ostensibly striking have yet to say anything, I thi…
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My take on it. If it was a strike I think we'd hear about it in more definitive terms than rumor. That's the point of a strike, disruption and attention.
Re: Southwest operational meltdown as hundreds of flights canceled or delayed
#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's just a baseless rumor as far as I can see. SW says there's a staffing problem at "one location in florida," and blames weather otherwise. Meanwhile at least the SW pilot's union says "our pilots are not participating in any official or unofficial job actions." Union goes on to say the disruption is because of SW's "bad management." Given that the people who are ostensibly striking have yet to say anything, I thi…
The alleged staffing problem was with air traffic control, not Southwest employees.
FAA says "it's not us"! (Except for a few hours on Friday.)
https://twitter.com/FAANews/status/1447358177935245315
And it does seem to be Southwest-specific:
https://flightaware.com/live/cancelled/
SWA is my favorite airline, but their story doesn't add up here.
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Do you remember where you read that? Really curious! Love me some drama.
It's just a baseless rumor as far as I can see. SW says there's a staffing problem at "one location in florida," and blames weather otherwise. Meanwhile at least the SW pilot's union says "our pilots are not participating in any official or unofficial job actions." Union goes on to say the disruption is because of SW's "bad management." Given that the people who are ostensibly striking have yet to say anything, I thi…
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Re: Southwest operational meltdown as hundreds of flights canceled or delayed
#25COVID has taken over 733,000 lives in the US; a number larger than the populations of Boston, Nashville, Detroit, and our own capital in Washington.
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#26Seeing stories like this makes me wonder if we'll ever see a company actually go bust based purely on the instability of its decades-old, duct-taped architecture. I have a relative who works for a large credit card processor running on mainframe systems and I hear over and over again that they're all retiring and unable to fill the newly opened roles. This problem is compounded by the fact that their offshore contrac…
This problem isn't occurring due to software issues.
Re: Southwest operational meltdown as hundreds of flights canceled or delayed
#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
Do you remember where you read that? Really curious! Love me some drama.
It's just a baseless rumor as far as I can see. SW says there's a staffing problem at "one location in florida," and blames weather otherwise. Meanwhile at least the SW pilot's union says "our pilots are not participating in any official or unofficial job actions." Union goes on to say the disruption is because of SW's "bad management." Given that the people who are ostensibly striking have yet to say anything, I thi…
A union would be incredibly foolish to admit that it is engaging in an illegal wildcat strike, so I don't think that statement is particularly useful either way.
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It’s referenced in the article.
When you say that, do you mean the part that reads > Online speculation that Southwest’s new vaccine mandate has led pilots to stage a sickout is being denied by the union representing Southwest pilots.
To me,
>That follows reporting on social media that some of the issues the airline is suffering could be related to that issue. A spokesperson for the Southwest Airlines Pilots Association (SWAPA) told the Arizona Republic it was not aware of any work stoppage and wouldn’t condone it anyway.
>SWAPA, however, has authorized its members to demonstrate against the mandate.
sounds like there is a vaccine mandate-related sickout going on, but it's officially unofficial. I don't know why that would be the case; there's no law against airline pilots doing such. Maybe the union doesn't want to be denounced for being allegedly "anti-science"?
Re: Southwest operational meltdown as hundreds of flights canceled or delayed
#29Seeing stories like this makes me wonder if we'll ever see a company actually go bust based purely on the instability of its decades-old, duct-taped architecture. I have a relative who works for a large credit card processor running on mainframe systems and I hear over and over again that they're all retiring and unable to fill the newly opened roles. This problem is compounded by the fact that their offshore contrac…
It is maddening. Even if the stated goal is to “get off the mainframe” everybody deep down knows it isn’t going anywhere for 10 years. We recently had a discussion about porting from one mainframe “module” to another due to cost. I asked why we don’t just continue paying for the current module since the goal is to sunset mainframe. Everybody on the call laughed.
So we will go ahead and “invest” several man years and god knows how much money into a platform everybody agrees we should get off of.
Re: Southwest operational meltdown as hundreds of flights canceled or delayed
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It's just a baseless rumor as far as I can see. SW says there's a staffing problem at "one location in florida," and blames weather otherwise. Meanwhile at least the SW pilot's union says "our pilots are not participating in any official or unofficial job actions." Union goes on to say the disruption is because of SW's "bad management." Given that the people who are ostensibly striking have yet to say anything, I thi…
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