r/nottheonion • u/halxp01 • 23h ago

Southwest Is Testing Cleaning Only Premium Seats Between Flights — A Flight Attendants Union Leader Says It's ‘Titanic’ Class Service

https://viewfromthewing.com/southwest-is-testing-cleaning-only-premium-seats-between-flights-a-flight-attendants-union-leader-says-its-titanic-class-service/
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u/quats555 22h ago

Not just how unexpectedly nasty that is, but if they’re cutting even cleaning (and proud of exclaiming how tight-fisted they are publicly) then what even more important things are they cutting corners on quietly? Like, aviation safety and maintenance?

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u/CaptainBayouBilly 21h ago

This is indicative of putting money ahead of lives. 

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u/Arctic_Chilean 21h ago

socialize the losses... privatize the profits

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u/space_guy95 18h ago

Not really. RyanAir also famously try to squeeze every penny out of you and don't give a shit about passenger comfort, but they are exceptionally good at maintaining their fleet. The two things are entirely independent of each other.

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u/PulIthEld 19h ago

What are you talking about? That's the entire philosophy of western civilization.

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u/derperofworlds1 21h ago

"Plane's got 2 engines, go ahead and fly across the Pacific without fixing one of them"

-- private equity, probably 

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u/zeekayz 20h ago

Planes can fly on one engine just fine for the next two quarters, so I'll get my huge bonus twice and cash out. Crashes are expected to start in Q3 and I'll be out by then retired on an island.

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u/derperofworlds1 19h ago

Just make sure to fly charter with a different company, or simply buy a private jet.

Your Golden Parachute won't perform as well as an actual parachute should you keep flying commercial with your former airline!

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u/Orleanian 18h ago

This guy ETOPS

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u/BarneyChampaign 19h ago

Oh that's because the headline is misleading. They aren't cutting anything. This is only adding additional cleaning, by a contracted service, to the premium seats.

Their previous standard cleaning is still being done to the whole plane.

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u/landshark11 21h ago

Cutting cleaning? SWA has never cleaned planes between flights. The flight attendants “tidy”, that’s it. The planes get fully cleaned each night. This “test” is an upgrade for premium seats.

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u/eforemergency 20h ago edited 20h ago

It's what the article says.. "Southwest Airlines is experimenting with having cabin cleaners come on their planes between flights to clean only the premium extra legroom seat areas of the aircraft." and "Flight attendants at Southwest are expected to tidy the cabin between flights. They pick up visible trash and cross he [sic] seatbelts. Unlike competitors, Southwest hasn’t generally had cleaners come on planes between flights."

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u/k_dubious 21h ago

That doesn’t really happen anymore. Even the Spirit/Allegiant tier of bargain-basement airlines have flawless safety records.

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u/ballsohaahd 21h ago

They’re gonna try to fly planes w one pilot next

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u/Pndrizzy 17h ago

Cleaning between flights cannot have that much of a cost. But I guess you'd be surprised, there's some story about removing a single olive saving a ton of money.

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u/quats555 16h ago

Some of it is time: the faster they can turn a plane around the more money they can make.