As Southwest Airlines continues to clean up the mess left behind by its Christmas travel fiasco, the carrier faces a new challenge – a potential pilots' strike.
left behind by its Christmas travel fiasco, the carrier faces a new challenge – a potential pilots' strike. "This isn't about pilots as much as it's about the soul of Southwest Airlines," said Captain Casey Murray, president of the Southwest Airlines Pilots Association ."It's about providing what our mandate is, which is safe and reliable transportation, and reliability is not there today, and our customers deserve better. Our employees deserve better.
The historic action comes in the wake of the airlines' Christmas-week catastrophe. Murray hopes it's a wake-up call for Southwest Airlines. The SWAPA pilots' votes will be counted at the end of May. If they approve the strike, it would still require clearance from federal labor officials, which could take months.
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