As anyone who traveled with Southwest Airlines in December 2022 knows, it was hell. thousands of flights Canceled nationwide due to extreme weather. lawsuit filed, People were waiting for flight refunds. It was a complete mess. Southwest wants to prevent that from happening again. Washington Post Airlines have reportedly invested billions of dollars in updating their systems so that they can be prepared if something like that happens again.
so e-mail Sent to members of the airline’s loyalty program, CEO Bob Jordan outlined the steps the company is taking to ensure it’s prepared in case something like the December cancellation happens again. explained. The most important part of all this is taking care of customers, which Jordan pointed out is always a priority. It is said thatBesides 25,000 Reward Points “As of last weekend, we’ve returned nearly all of the bags we had at the event, processed nearly all refunds, and processed tens of thousands of refund requests a day.”
A big part of the plan is to update the company’s systems. Southwest set aside his $1 billion for the company’s investments, upgrades, and maintenance of his IT systems. The airline will also create a review panel to help understand what went wrong, and an outside consulting firm called Oliver Wyman will make further suggestions on what the company can do to improve. It was brought in for
This is all a step in the right direction, but it shouldn’t have caused a devastating wave of flight cancellations to light a fire under Southwest’s ass to make a change. All of this could have been avoided if the airline had warned and acted just before it did.in the meantime This is not unique to the Southwest Of course, what makes Southwest Airlines stand out is the number of flights canceled in such a short period of time. In the days leading up to cancellations and storms, concerns were reported about everything from staffing shortages to system outages.A December 21 note obtained by post, for example, Southwest’s Vice President of Ground Operations highlights how he was concerned about staffing shortages at Denver Airport. He was concerned enough to describe it as an “operational emergency”. but nothing was done.
Unfortunately, we’ll have to wait until another storm or holiday flight epidemic to see if the billions of dollars Southwest has invested pay off.
