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Business, Economics, and Taxes: Capitalism. Yay? >=(

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bronconick said:
I guess their crew staffing software was held together with rubber band and feelings. So with the weather they have to call people to roster them and it's a 4 hour time on hold.
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I think that was a contributing factor the last time as well. Poorly designed system when it came to the crew staffing, combined with the flaws of a point-to-point system when weather strikes multiple areas and it was bound to happen again. Wont be the last time either.
 
Handyman said:
113...down over 8%. A year ago today it was at $251.
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In a recent tweet Elmo compared himself to Batman, keeping watch over Twitter as the Caped Crusader keeps watch over Gotham. What a Joker.
I do appreciate him crashing his stock to own the libs, but I won't really feel owned until it hits 50. Come on T I know you can do it!
 
ticapnews said:
In a recent tweet Elmo compared himself to Batman, keeping watch over Twitter as the Caped Crusader keeps watch over Gotham. What a Joker.
I do appreciate him crashing his stock to own the libs, but I won't really feel owned until it hits 50. Come on T I know you can do it!
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He was certainly a Two Face, but I'd call him more of a Mad Hatter. But despite posturing as The Heretic in the end he's really Nobody.
 
Kepler said:
Is a hub more robust because you store your extra planes there so if an inbound flight is canceled you have a backup plane to fly outbound?
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I think so. While there's of course not an unlimited extra supply, there might be some possible swaps in the larger hubs, whereas point-to-point means there less likely to be a way to replace a plane that got stuck somewhere earlier in the system.





Does anti-vaxxers still take credit for Southwest planes getting stuck?
 
French Rage said:
I think so. While there's of course not an unlimited extra supply, there might be some possible swaps in the larger hubs, whereas point-to-point means there less likely to be a way to replace a plane that got stuck somewhere earlier in the system.
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One of the hubs is O'Hare though, right?

I think I see a problem...
 
French Rage said:
I think so. While there's of course not an unlimited extra supply, there might be some possible swaps in the larger hubs, whereas point-to-point means there less likely to be a way to replace a plane that got stuck somewhere earlier in the system.





Does anti-vaxxers still take credit for Southwest planes getting stuck?
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With hubs your planes are all going through the same places so if a few planes get stuck because of weather you can rotate a plane meant to go to another destination or one sitting on reserve (though planes rarely sit on reserve). With point to point you don’t have those options usually, if a plane gets stuck you’re SOL.
 
Jimjamesak said:
With hubs your planes are all going through the same places so if a few planes get stuck because of weather you can rotate a plane meant to go to another destination or one sitting on reserve (though planes rarely sit on reserve). With point to point you don’t have those options usually, if a plane gets stuck you’re SOL.
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I have a family member at delta ops and heads ago I spent a shift with him . So cool to see the decisions he got to make about aircraft and crews.

the hub system has some advantages
 
Southwest basically has hubs these days. Vegas, Denver, Midway, to a lesser extent BWI, St. Louis, and one of the Dallas airports.

What I'm reading is that the issue is their 25-year-old crew dispatching software, in which exceptions have to manually inputted with the crew calling in to a call center, and the hold times for that internal calling system is over half a day now because of the cascading cancellations.
 
Southwest took almost $4 billion in federal bailout cash the last two years and gave the CEO a $9 million bonus, which I assume the company will be reversing in light of recent events.

Right?
 
unofan said:
Southwest basically has hubs these days. Vegas, Denver, Midway, to a lesser extent BWI, St. Louis, and one of the Dallas airports.

What I'm reading is that the issue is their 25-year-old crew dispatching software, in which exceptions have to manually inputted with the crew calling in to a call center, and the hold times for that internal calling system is over half a day now because of the cascading cancellations.
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Whaaaat? The cheap airline has a cheap system that doesn’t work when facing a difficult situation?
 
Jimjamesak said:
Whaaaat? The cheap airline has a cheap system that doesn’t work when facing a difficult situation?
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They aren't even that cheap. I don't really consider them an LCC these days. Their fares are comparable to United or American econ most of the time, but they still don't charge for checked bags even if you're just an occasional flyer.
 
FadeToBlack&Gold said:
They aren't even that cheap. I don't really consider them an LCC these days. Their fares are comparable to United or American econ most of the time, but they still don't charge for checked bags even if you're just an occasional flyer.
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They don’t fly to Alaska so I’ve never flown on them and I never even consider them.

TBF, I don’t pay for checked bags either because I usually fly Alaska and Alaska Airlines doesn’t charge Alaska residents for checked bags when flying to or from Alaska.
 
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