Southwest disaster
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But I guess my point is that the wages for the crew are such a small part of the ticket expense that it's silly that airlines are running such a lean crew.
There’s a huge opportunity for someone or some company that will market themselves to shareholders as a “a little less profit/slower growth for a lot more customers and a lot more loyal customers”. That goes for pretty pretty much every industry. I think Financial Services is slowly slowly slowly coming around to that kind of model with like a 60/40 split towards being customer-centric.
I don’t necessarily disagree but the airlines have learned from experience that consumers care about price way, way, way more than every other factor, except maybe timing/convenience of the flight. The pilots at the mainlines are all negotiating with the benefit of a union too. I think the only crew members that are not unionized are Delta’s flight attendants and mechanics.
State agencies don’t pay IT people enough to keep them very long.This is why I have a career in software consulting
Meanwhile BIL still has a job with a large nationwide company cause he knows that cutting edge language, COBOL. My sister got her first full time job in 1978 because she knew COBOL.
My son was cancelled by Allegiant, not SW, but same problem of not having agreements with other airlines. He got a cheap direct flight on Jet Blue that got the job done, only getting back a day late. They look like they had one of the better records during this mess, which surprises me.
Damn boomers saving their jobs again and not signing agreements.
I’m trying to figure out if I should just look for a flight now rather than wait two days…I guess I could wait until tonight or tomorrow morning when they show flight status on web. If i get delayed 1-2 days it’s not the end of the world, don’t want to get screwed on some expensive flight in comparison to what I had.
I mean if same flight is cancelled both today and tomorrow I’m thinking the next day is most likely too right?
Not sure. I hope you don’t need to check a bag though. Son’s Jet Blue was less than his Allegiant refund though.
For our trip to LA the day after Thanksgiving, we got an alert from Allegiant 5 days before that the return flight was cancelled. The only options were cancel the full package or pick another date/city. There were no other flights from LA for several weeks (all cancelled).
We ended up having to spend $3,600 to purchase last minute tickets through American instead of the $1,100 flights through Allegiant.
Since our whole trip was scheduled around Allegiant's ****** schedule, it made a mess of things.
Allegiant cancelled trip here two days before storm and gave him option to keep return flight, which he did, only to cancel that Monday. He took Jet Blue from KC, which isn’t much farther for us than DM, plus he has two brothers who were going to KC anyway. Kind of wish DM had Jet Blue instead of Allegiant at this point.
Southwest meltdown reminds me of the hok fan meltdown when Proctor flipped to Bama last week. Both will never fully recover from it.
After seeing how large of an airline southwest is (they’re the 6th largest public airline company in the world by revenue), I am surprised that this happened to them. Not as surprised as it it happened to delta, United, or American, but still surprised
Let us know how capped the fares of the other airlines are:
Southwest cancellations continue as rival carriers cap fares to help stranded flyers
The airline cut another 60% of its schedule even as operations at other airlines improved.
www.cnbc.com
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