[mastercheif]

FWIW, a SouthWest pilot with 35 YOE at the company placed most of the blame on the previous CEO's lack of investment in operations in chase of shareholder profits.

The pilot gave the current CEO Bob Jordan (who started in early 2022) a vote of confidence and stated that he has strongly signaled his intention to improve the state of SW's systems, but obviously was unable to do so before this meltdown.

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/SouthwestAirlines/comments/zxg6op/t...

[mgkimsal]

Someone in charge of an org that large, less than 10 months in, getting the blame for over a decade of skipped maintenance.... pretty unfair.