Southwest grounds 41 jets

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kayrharris · #1 Post by **kayrharris** » Wed Mar 12, 2008 12:23 pm

Better check the schedule if you're flying anytime soon.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080312/ap_ ... t_airlines

marrymeflyfree · #2 Post by **marrymeflyfree** » Wed Mar 12, 2008 6:19 pm

A friend of mine works for Southwest. They were told to expect a lot of reassignments and cancellations, that the operation would basically be functioning on a crappy weather type schedule. Their memos said to just pretend that Midway is in a blizzard. heh.

Forgot to add: as a result, friend said that a lot of FAs are calling out sick - either because they don't want to deal with it or because their own commuting flights into work are getting fubar-ed. He said there had been just a few unassigned trips before the announcement, but that there were tons of empty slots afterward.

Buffacuse · #3 Post by **Buffacuse** » Wed Mar 12, 2008 7:06 pm

Just before this broke, I sent them a letter complaining about my last flight...I 'spose I should be grateful I even had a flight--let alone that my plane made it to Buffalo safely.