✈ Attention Airline Pedes ✈
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Indeed. This should be stickied!
My dad works for JetBlue at Reagan, I'll send this to him.
Airport fren here. I commented about it, but I saw a 4 hour maintenance delay for “a tire” yesterday. Landing gears tend to be scheduled maintenance, not “let’s fly to a city, say we feel like the tire looks funny and then time out while they fly a new tire in—also with no pilots” It wasn’t SW, but it was one of the only non-cancelled flights for United at this airport. This caused way more hassle bc it was last minute not just cancelled at 6 am. Myself along with other passengers thought it was more of a protest—a game of “who is really in charge of this airline?”
SW is one of the best airlines to work for (other airlines pay groundcrew etc next to minimum wage) SW employees get partial ownership, amazing vacation time and overtime and have a very strong union. They are leading this for the industry because they are in the best position to.
Also, looking at the time of these cancellations is key. They don’t ground the plane and crew for the whole day because of weather in one time in one city, we know they will delay a flight for a few hours (that’s how long storms last) and move on. If it’s canceled in the morning or 10 hours ahead of time—it’s crew call offs.
Not insider info at all, just an easy way to logic things out.
should be stickied imo