Southwest airlines pilot fired1/17/2024 ![]() ![]() Kuwitzky about bonus pay retroactive to December 22. At 1600 on Christmas Eve, I received a call from Mr. Our Negotiating Committee met with Labor Relations just last week and not once did the Company make an offer, despite the looming forecast. Overwhelmingly, you replied that you had no interest in an MOU that was merely a one-time buy off unless the Company included Contract 2020 scheduling efficiencies to help guard against exactly what is happening today. SWAPA anticipated that operational challenges might force the Company to offer another Ops Issues MOU like last year, so we polled the membership in November to measure support. My message from last year, Investing in the Operation lists decades of acknowledgements by management of the exact same failures that defined this meltdown. “Avarice” as evidenced by how our management chooses to continue to reward shareholders instead of stakeholders - the very same stakeholders that the Company relies on to recover the operation during and after every meltdown. ![]() A former VP of Flight Ops once stated “SWAPA has no levers to pull here, but I can” as he dismissed solutions offered by your Union. And even though irrefutable analytics and data have been provided by SWAPA again and again, pride in their outdated processes and technology continues to drive our management. “Pride” in ignoring solutions that have been, and continue to be, offered to support the house of cards that our operation has become. Pride and avarice have replaced our once vaunted culture. And each meltdown has become worse than the last. Each communication from SWA’s “leadership” is more tone deaf than the last. I can’t express my appreciation for the dedication and professionalism each of you has shown through this leadership vacuum and failure from the top on down at Southwest. Here’s the full message from the pilot union head to pilots: The pilot union head isn’t being constructive here, but there’s a legitimate gripe for both employees and customers to say the airline CEO should be more visible in this crisis. There’s an IT investment deficit which Southwest has been working to rectify for years, way too slowly. Of course there are problems both of sufficient staffing and proper IT to best utilize that staffing. We weren’t willing to make adjustments to our work rules to support the operation without getting most of what we wanted, anyway.Here’s what the President of Southwest’s pilot union is telling the airline’s cockpit crews. SWAPA, the Southwest Airlines Pilots Association, has something to say. Not only couldn’t customers get through to rebook, employees couldn’t get through either. And a long-term investment deficit in the systems and technology to properly track their workforce. ![]() Inexperienced staff (18% of Southwest’s workforce is new this year, with over 15,000 hires since January). They keep cancelling a majority of their flights. They didn’t just cancel more flights than anyone else over the Christmas holiday – by a large measure – they’ve failed to recover their operation. Southwest Airlines has completely melted down. ![]()
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