{"id":152189,"date":"2022-12-29T15:24:17","date_gmt":"2022-12-29T19:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=152189"},"modified":"2022-12-29T15:24:47","modified_gmt":"2022-12-29T19:24:47","slug":"everything-points-to-an-engineered-takedown-of-the-third-largest-airline-in-the-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=152189","title":{"rendered":"

Everything points to an engineered takedown of the third largest airline in the USA.<\/b><\/h2>"},"content":{"rendered":"

SOUTH WEST AIRLINES (SWA)\u00a0– PILOT INTEL – SITREP<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Posted at godlikeproductions.com<\/p>\n

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I just received this as a text message.<\/p>\n

…According this first hand Pilot report, SWA is \u201cMelting Down\u201d, and it sounds like there is no hope for a solution. SWA is completely disingenuous with their \u201cexcuses\u201d.Everyone needs to know what is really going on.<\/p>\n

Do your thing, GLP !<\/p>\n

\u201cFrom a travel group:<\/p>\n

My friend\u2019s husband is a pilot with Southwest. He just posted this an hour ago. I\u2019m not including his name or the photos he shared of packed SWA employee rooms at the airports over the past couple of days (in case his post comes back to bite him with the company\u2014even though he\u2019s stating facts.) He also posted a screenshot of a fellow pilot on hold with SWA Scheduling for over 22 hours. Anyway, here\u2019s some insight for those wondering if this massive round of SWA cancellations is really all due to weather and staffing issues:<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know what to say. Southwest Airlines has imploded. Their antiquated software system has completely fried.\u00a0\u00a0Planes are parked. Crews are stranded in the airports with the passengers, volunteering to take the passengers in the parked planes but the software won\u2019t accept it. Phone lines are overwhelmed for both passenger and crews. I personally spent over two hours trying to get ahold of anyone in the company last night after midnight. A Captain and I did manage to get the one flight put together on Christmas night and got people home. Kudos to the ops agent and dispatcher for making it happen. We had to manually input a lot of the data and it took over an hour to coordinate with dispatch going back and forth running numbers.<\/p>\n

We spent hours trying to get the company to answer and get us a hotel when we landed as they\u2019re all sold out.\u00a0\u00a0We were only put in a call que for hours before hanging up. I found one hotel with 4 rooms and we bought our own rooms at 2:30am. I even paid for a Flight Attendants room. We literally have crews sleeping on the airport floors all over the country with nowhere to go. Crews have been calling to fly anyone, anywhere, but the company says the system needs a reset. They have effectively shut down the operations for the rest of year, running 1\/3 of the flights so that they can let the computer find and locate the crews and aircraft. Gate agents are in tears. They\u2019ve been yelled at, cussed at, slapped and spit on. Flight attendants have been taking a beating. The frontline employees have had little support or communication. Terminals are standing room only with people having been there for days. Pilot lounges are packed with pilots ready to fly and nowhere to go.<\/p>\n

Embarrassing is an understatement. I\u2019m going on my second of three days off, still stuck on the east coast and still expected to show up in the morning with no schedule. And I\u2019m willing to fly all day if needed. Because that\u2019s nothing compared to the passengers needing meds in bags that are lost and mothers traveling with kids, having been stuck for the same amount of days in the terminal.\u00a0\u00a0In 24 years, I\u2019ve never seen anything like this. Heads need to roll! Rumors on media are floating that there is a lack of crews and pilots are staging sick calls.\u00a0\u00a0Absolutely not true at all. This is a computer system meltdown. Thousands of crew members are sitting in hotels and airports with nowhere to go. This airline has failed miserably.\u201d<\/p>\n

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