Today on your Hollywood minute, Amanda discusses the disaster that is Southwest. After being affected by the mess, Amanda discusses her Christmas vacation and the craziness that it was. While many are looking towards Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg for answers, Amanda says that he already knew about Southwest’s issues. She isn’t hopeful for his help, and you probably shouldn’t be either!
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Christmas wasn’t ruined by Southwest Airlines. It was ruined over many years by the Congress that refused to financially and otherwise support high speed rail service for travel over distances of less than 600 miles. Transportation is not improved by government regulation. It is improved by encouraging competition and greater efficiency in systems. Short flight air travel is inherently inefficient and costly and should give way to more efficient systems, like high-speed rail. By the time planes reach cruising altitude in short flights, it is nearly time to begin to lose altitude to land. The government’s role in improving transportation is to invest in transportation public works projects. The last major transportation public works project was the Interstate Highway System of the 1950s, and high-speed rail should have been the next major transportation system. The government failed, and the Christmas chaos was the result, a result that was predictable and coming for many years.
SWA Reforms:
Update scheduling software
Be flexible
Hire New Blood
Make changes
SW is claiming the problem began on Dec 24th, 2022. Not the case my daughter and her family has their flights cancelled by SW on Dec 21st for flights taking off from Denver on Dec 22nd. My daughter and her family had to then book very expensive tickets on United leaving on Dec 22nd. So for SW to claim their problems began on Dec 24th, it’s a complete lie since flights were leaving Denver on Dec. 22nd except SW.
To compound the problem their return flights booked on SW for Dec 28 and Dec 29 were cancelled also causing them to rent a mini van and drive back to Denver resulting in much more added costs for them.
I DO NOT LIKE THE AIRLINES, BUT SOUTHWEST DID NOT RUIN CHRISTMAS.
EVERY TRAVELER WAS GIVEN ADVANCE NOTICE THAT THERE WAS AN EPIC STORM ABOUT TO CONVERGE ON THE UNITED STATES.
PEOPLE HAVE TO TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR THEIR OWN ACTIONS. THAT IS ONE OF THE PROBLEMS THESE DAYS EVERYONE LIKES TO BLAME OTHERS FOR THEIR INABILITY TO MAKE THE SMART DECISIONS. THE SMART PEOPLE THAT I HANG WITH ALL AGREE, WHY IN THE WORLD WOULD YOU TRAVEL UNDER THOSE CONDITIONS. NOT ONLY DANGEROUS BUT DOWN RIGHT DUMB.