> The reason my flight on Saturday was cancelled was because Delta was one flight attendant short of the legal minimum to board. [...]
> Four days later, this same problem persists. Delta simply can’t find it’s own employees.
> I’ve read a few early think pieces on the matter, and it looks like this will cost Delta at least a billion dollars, although it could be substantially higher depending on what fines the Transportation Department imposes. The federal government stuck Southwest with a $140m penalty for a similar disruption in service more than a decade ago.
(Based on some quick searches - his "more than a decade ago" is bunk; the $140m was in 2022: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwest_Airlines#December_20...)
Gosh, let's see...
- airline leadership is relentlessly optimizing for profit and stock price
- airline customers are (by most accounts) relentlessly optimizing for price, amenities, and safety
...and people complain that air travel isn't reliable.
In other news: data-center server motherboards are not circular, and base-model econo-cars have mediocre 0-60 times.
