This past week has been crazy, particularly at work. It’s been possibly the worst 7 days in the history of Southwest Airlines’ operations, with the obvious exception of Sept 11. Snow, ice, deicing delays, fog, and other issues have wreaked havoc on our flights in places you’d expect, like Chicago and the Northeast, and places you wouldn’t, such as Vegas and Portland. The majority of my inherited flights have run late for the last week. Tonight, Christmas Eve, I finally have a quiet night. I’m on a stretch of 16 straight shifts, which I normally wouldn’t do, but I picked up some overtime over Christmas and a traded shift at the beginning. I get some time off starting the morning of Jan 1. Halfway there!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This past week has been crazy, particularly at work. It’s been possibly the worst 7 days in the history of Southwest Airlines’ operations, with the obvious exception of Sept 11. Snow, ice, deicing delays, fog, and other issues have wreaked … Continue reading