Southwest Airlines Castle 2 Crew bases in Texas, Florida

“We consolidate our flight attendants satellite base in our capitals in the capitals, while we continue to maximize our operational efficiency and reliability,” said Chris Perry, spokesman for Southwest Airlines, in a statement to the Dallas Morning News.

The airline will close its satellite bases at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport in Florida and the International Airport Austin-Bergstrom in Texas in Texas.

“While the company has the right to make this decision, it is not without an impact on flight attendants,” said Twu Local 556 President Bill Bernal.

According to a Southwest spokesman, the airline opened the bases in 2018 and the 280 affected flight attendants can transfer its 12 main bases.

A subcommittee of the subcommittee for House Aviation on Tuesday heard statements from experts from the aviation industry, how the country's air traffic control system is outdated and understaffed, which significantly worsens public security.

In the meantime, Southwest and union officers declared that one month to withdraw to one month to one month to close the so -called satellite bases for his flight attendant, but not the pilots.

“This gives the members concerned more time to take precautions for this change in their professional and personal life,” added Bernal.

After the average of Southwest flight routes, this met and released around 1,750 employees or 15%in his company workforce to improve the costs of increasing costs and save around 210 million US dollars this year.

As with other airlines, the southwest in Dallas, based in Dallas, Texas, has to fight with an excessive US market, rising costs and other problems with Boeing, its sole aircraft supplier.

“In the end, this change will help strengthen our crew network and support more reliable operation for our employees and customers,” wrote the airline on Tuesday.

Last Tuesday, a Southwest flight narrowly missed collecting with a private jet at Chicago Airport.

In addition, there was almost six months after the airline with the Elliott Investment Management, an activist investor group, based in New York, had settled in the Board of Directors from Southwest in the middle of a shock and fall of chairman Gary Kelly.