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Re:How Southwest Airlines melted down
on Thursday December 29, 2022 @08:18AM (#34172307)
Right. I'm saying though, it's not just the initial state of less slack in their system due to hub and spoke versus point to point. It's also that other airlines were more realistic about backing off flights earlier and more aggressively as a reaction to the developing info on the storm.
Re:How Southwest Airlines melted down
on Thursday December 29, 2022 @08:16AM (#34172289)
"non-sensical tasking"
That could also be the result of thrashing after they were really far into the mess. That is, the solver maybe did output something sensible, but that solution has to get into the system that's used at runtime. Someone may have run another solution, or did manual updates while it was too overwhelmed to get all the changes posted. The solvers also depend on other context that's changing underneath them.
Re:How Southwest Airlines melted down
on Wednesday December 28, 2022 @06:41PM (#34167547)
The other carriers do also have a tipping point of no return. They were more aggressive about canceling flights in careful waves before they got to that point. Some of the observations here are correct, but there's that big missing piece that Southwest went too far in with an overoptimistic schedule. They won't say that because then there's no easy scapegoat.