Transportation Sec. Buttigieg said his department will be looking into the Southwest Airlines scheduling system after thousands of canceled flights enraged passengers across the U.S.
it plans to only operate around one-third of its schedule, or roughly 1,500 flights, for several days as it tries to move crews into position.Tuesday. He said there is a “massive effort to stabilize the airline” underway.
Casey Murray, president of the Southwest Airlines Pilots Association, said Southwest had not adequately prepared flights for the storm. Large swaths of Southwest crews also remain in contract negotiations with the carrier. “Clearly, we need to double-down on our already existing plans to upgrade systems for these extreme circumstances, so that we never again face what’s happening right now,” he said.
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