Re:Southwest cancels 5,400 flights in less than 48 hours
by eightysixfour on Tuesday December 27, 2022 @04:30PM
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And to top it off, airline unions fight tooth and nail to make sure this type of information cannot be tracked, which keeps a lot of systems manual. I understand why the unions don't want the data to be captured, but it also makes it hard to optimize physical systems.
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Re:Southwest cancels 5,400 flights in less than 48 hours
by CydeWeys on Tuesday December 27, 2022 @08:41PM
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Do you have a source? Why would unions fight to keep data from being logged that would ensure that their members aren't overworked? If you're not logging all the working hours how can you even be sure everyone is being paid correctly?
Re:Southwest cancels 5,400 flights in less than 48 hours
by eightysixfour on Wednesday December 28, 2022 @10:19AM
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Sorry, wasn’t entirely clear on what data I was talking about.
Unions fight to keep a lot of data from being automated instead of manual because the automated data can be used to build individual performance metrics. For example, some baggage handling unions fought against bag scanners because then you could tell how much work different union members did.
They’re trying to keep from getting optimized to death like an Amazon warehouse worker.
Unfortunately that same automated data is really useful for dealing with situations like this. Once the manually entered data is out of sync with the real world the errors compound and you have cascading failures.