Southwest Airlines is offering buyouts to ground workers at many of its airports, and it's blaming Boeing for the reductions. Southwest said Monday that it will offer buyouts and extended leaves of absence to avoid what it calls “overstaffing in certain locations.
Southwest Airlines is offering buyouts and extended leaves of absence to airport workers to avoid what it calls “overstaffing in certain locations,” which it blames on a shortage of new planes from Boeing.A Southwest spokesperson said the offers of “voluntary separation” are limited to 18 airports. The company declined to identify the airport or say how many jobs it hopes to eliminate.
Southwest officials have said that the Dallas-based airline plans to end this year with 2,000 fewer workers than it started. That is after Southwest grew from 66,600 to nearly 75,000 employees last year. The figures count part-timers as one-half. Southwest had originally expected about 85 new Boeing 737 jets this year but has cut that number to 20 because of production problems at Boeing that began after a panel blew out of the side of an Alaska Airlines 737 Max during a flight in January.
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