Southwest Airlines dramatically reduced its flight schedule and has stopped selling tickets for most of the country in the coming days as it tries to restore...
Dallas-based Southwest is cutting about two-thirds of its flights in the coming days in an attempt to “reset” operations, the company told staff in a message late Monday night, reducing daily flights from about 4,000 to around 1,400 nationwide.
“Due to our limited schedule and large number of re-accommodations, inventory available to book flights across our network is very low, but we are still operating flights,” Southwest spokesman Chris Perry said in a statement. “The extreme cold weather made us limit the amount of time our ground operations staff were exposed,” Watterson said in the message to employees. “We started to see equipment freeze, jet bridges freeze, fuel congeal, and as a result, we had to modify our network, sometimes shutting down crew bases operations for a while.”
Southwest has plenty of flight attendants and pilots available to work. Union leaders said crew members have been waiting on hold with telephone support for five to eight hours trying to get new assignments while sitting in hotel rooms ready to fly.
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