![]() ![]() But at this point, the many years of failure by management, despite many unions’ demands to modernize, has left flight attendants fatigued, stranded, hungry and cold."Īccording to Captain Michael Santoro, Vice President of Southwest Airlines Pilot Association, while severe weather was the catalyst, it was "vastly outdated" IT infrastructure and scheduling system that's different from other carriers that led to the meltdown. "We know winter storms.We know about stepping up and putting in long work hours when we are called to do so we are flight attendants. "We know the demands of holiday travel," the union's statement goes on to say. It's not just Southwest passengers that are stranded.Īccording to a release from TWU Local 556, Southwest Airlines Flight Attendant Union of more than 18,000 members, "thousands" of crew members are also stranded across the country, "some forced to sleep on cots in airports, some in hotels without power or water, and far too many working long hours well past acceptable duty days, and more." "The tools we use to recover from disruption serve us well, 99 percent of the time but clearly, we need to double down on our already existing plans to upgrade systems for these extreme circumstances so that we never again face what's happening right now."įile photo of a Southwest Airlines pilot at a gate at Midway International Airport "Our network is highly complex and the operation of the airline counts on all the pieces, especially aircraft and crews remaining in motion to where they're planned to go," Jordan said. In a statement released by Southwest Monday, the airline said it was severe weather that "forced daily changes to our flight schedule at a volume and magnitude that still has the tools our teams use to recover the airline operating at capacity," and that the airline has made the decision to "continue operating a reduced schedule by flying roughly one third of our schedule for the next several days."Ī video update posted on Southwest Airline's website Tuesday from CEO Bob Jordan echoed this sentiment, saying that "cities where large numbers of scheduled flights simultaneously froze as record bitter cold brought challenges for all airlines." Sign up for the weekly Chicago Catch-Up newsletter here. All rights reserved.Feeling out of the loop? We'll catch you up on the Chicago news you need to know. The-CNN-Wire™ & © 2023 Cable News Network, Inc., a Warner Bros. In response, Southwest Airlines wrote on Twitter, "Well that is definitely something you don't see every day." Impressive effort by Southwest Airlines," Rexroad said. "It is amazing that this pilot went above and beyond to get this flight out. Rexroadtook photos of the incident and posted them to Twitter. "One of our Pilots unlocked the door from a Flight Deck window, and the flight departed as scheduled." ![]() "During the boarding process, while other Customers and Flight Attendants were onboard, a Customer opened the forward lavatory door and inadvertently pushed the Flight Deck door closed (which locked) while the Pilots scheduled to operate the flight were preparing to board the aircraft," the airline said in a statement to CNN. Passenger Matt Rexroad told CNN he was getting ready to board a flight from San Diego to Sacramento when he saw the plane's pilot crawling through a window. ![]() SAN DIEGO - It's never fun to be locked out - whether it's from your house, your car, or a commercial airliner.Ī Southwest Airlines pilot wound up crawling through a cockpit window on Wednesday after a customer inadvertently locked the flight deck door, the airline says. A Southwest pilot got locked out of the cockpit before a flight after a passenger inadvertently locked the flight deck.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |