How many minutes for that someone to work out where a plane is, how to crew it legally, and where it should go?
How many planes crews and flights are backlogged?
Also, there are 11 hubs if I count correctly[2], so an average of 71 planes/hub.
Surely a team of a people could manage that amount of information in each hub on a temporary basis.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwest_Airlines_fleet
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwest_Airlines
the rules for this are insanely complicated and practically require automation to keep track of if you have more than a small handful of crew members.
https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-14/chapter-I/subchapter-G...
Also, there are 11 hubs if I count correctly[2], so an average of 71 planes/hub.
Surely a team of a people could manage that amount of information in each hub on a temporary basis.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwest_Airlines_fleet
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwest_Airlines