Southwest new CEO denies walk-off rumors, defends pilots amid schedule meltdown

Re:Southwest new CEO denies walk-off rumors, defends pilots ... by labster on Thursday October 14, 2021 @12:09AM (#28860425)

> I saw one explanation (no idea if it's true) that individuals were taking sick days

Good news! If you actually read the article, you get information like:

“Nothing like that is true,” Jordan said. “We didn’t see sick leave beyond normal. In fact, we saw our crews picking up open time to the extent that they could.”

RTFA: it’s better than random Twitter speculation. I mean, yeah, it’s about Southwest and not American, but it’s hard to see why pilot behavior would be different.

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Re:Southwest new CEO denies walk-off rumors, defends pilots ... by Thorrez on Thursday October 14, 2021 @01:51AM (#28860904)

That doesn't seem to exactly contradict Covzire. Covzire was talking about vacation, while the quote is mostly talking about sick leave.

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Re:Southwest new CEO denies walk-off rumors, defends pilots ... by addicted on Thursday October 14, 2021 @10:01AM (#28864304)

They're saying they took sick days instead of vacations.

That's entirely about sick leave.

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Re:Southwest new CEO denies walk-off rumors, defends pilots ... by Thorrez on Friday October 15, 2021 @12:50AM (#28874418)

I think I misunderstood, but my main idea might still stand. Some companies treat vacation and sick days as the same thing, and put them in the same bucket called PTO. Some companies separate them. I'm not sure what Southwest does. If Southwest separates them, then labster's quote could be true while simultaneously a lot of employees are out on vacation days due to wanting to use them up before quitting.

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Re:Southwest new CEO denies walk-off rumors, defends pilots ... by KennyBlanken on Thursday October 14, 2021 @02:36AM (#28861179)

Covzire was claiming without any proof whatsoever that they saw "lots of reports on twitter."

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