Also, SWA has a greater variety of equipment, making it harder to match appropriately trained crews with equipment. Lots of unintended consequences once things start to unravel.
Jack
> On Jan 11, 2023, at 8:19 PM, Mark Landin <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> I read a lot more about the Southwest Airlines issue. SWA, unlike most
> carriers, still runs their flights as a point-to-point network rather than
> a hub and spike network. This makes it more efficient in many ways but also
> makes it much more fragile and harder to start back up after a disruption.
> Given those constraints it’s unlikely any computer system would have made
> much of a positive difference.
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> The informative discussion I read can be found here:
> https://arstechnica.com/civis/threads/how-difficult-is-it-to-program-a-restart-of-southwest-airlines-point-to-point-system-after-a-major-service-disruption.1488902/
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> On Wed, Jan 11, 2023 at 19:11 Tracy Johnson <
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>> Two things that went down yesterday, I'm implying HP3000 guilt by
>> coincidence.
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>> On 1/11/23 20:09, Mark Ranft wrote:
>>> Does the Royal Mail use HP3000s?
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>>> Mark Ranft
>>>
>>>> On Jan 11, 2023, at 12:42 PM, Tracy Johnson<
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>>>> May I be the first to raise there the same question about the FAA as
>> there was about Southwest during Christmas?
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>>>> Does anybody know if the FAA (was: Southwest) is still using the HP
>> 3000 platform at all? I read in the news (was: heard some employees)
>> blaming their technology for some of their current problems.
>>>>
>>>> Oh and we can add the Royal Mail.
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