BIZARRE: 22 - What They Never Told You

Southwest Airlines pilots’ union calls for ‘historic’ strike vote to ramp up pressure

The Southwest Airlines pilots union is calling for a strike authorization vote in May in the wake of the Dallas-based carrier’s epic holiday meltdown.

Tribune News Service · Jan 18, 2023

Grounded planes, crashed cars and poisoned water: How faulty software has left society on the edge of disaster

Travel meltdowns at Southwest Airlines and the FAA have exposed how deeply we depend on outdated or unreliable computer systems. Yet as Io Dodds discovers, cancelled flights and ruined holidays are only the tip of the iceberg

The Independent UK · Jan 18, 2023

‘Captain Doug for the win’: Mum raves about pilot’s kind act after son flies solo

‘He’s one of my favorite pilots I’ve ever seen,’ says 11-year-old

The Independent UK · Jan 17, 2023

Southwest under fire for promoting executives amid flight meltdown that left thousands stranded

Company had a nightmarish holiday season with Biden administration promising to hold it accountable

The Independent UK · Jan 12, 2023

‘It’s been rough’: passengers weather another day of chaos at US airports

From weather disruptions to computer problems to crew shortages, customers are once again caught in travel limbo

The Guardian - US · Jan 11, 2023

Washington presses Southwest Airlines for prompt refunds, reimbursements after meltdown

The U.S. Department of Transportation and Secretary Pete Buttigieg will require Southwest Airlines to give prompt refunds and reimburse extra expenses after its holiday cancellation meltdown, adding pressure from Washington to speed along a move the carrier is already making to placate customers.

Tribune News Service · Jan 10, 2023

Wall Street investors shrug off Southwest Airlines’ holiday meltdown

Southwest Airlines has regained most of the value it lost on Wall Street when its operations cratered in late December and left hundreds of thousands of passengers without flights around Christmas.

Tribune News Service · Jan 10, 2023

Can airline darling Southwest recover from a holiday meltdown of its own making?

Simon Calder loves the carrier that Herb Kelleher founded in Texas in 1971. But there are limits

The Independent UK · Jan 9, 2023

Southwest crisis reveals clubby world of airline leaders

The operational chaos that engulfed Southwest Airlines Co. over the busy holiday period was a crisis decades in the making.

Tribune News Service · Jan 9, 2023

Southwest’s holiday meltdown was decades in the making

Are you done with Southwest Airlines, after your Christmas and New Year’s travel was ruined by the airline?

Tribune News Service · Jan 9, 2023