GeekOfTheWeek

Episode 2: Southwest Airlines Melt Down or It’s not nice to monkey with Mother Nature, especially in domestic aviation


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Music courtesy of Tuba Christmas Nashville, Tennessee 2022, used with permission.
Breaking News — A Family survives after Tesla drives off Cliff — today on News Four (01-03) Nashville - Another headline which doesn’t deliver.
No one rode that Tesla off the cliff to destruction! 
In addition to my review of the performance of the West Point band, I will review of the National Geographic WW-II Atlas & we’ll talk about the best Weather App for your smartphone.
 
At the same time, the rest of the nation endured cancellations & delays of more than 10,000 flights. Southwest owned only 2400 of those flights or less than 5% of the total, representing 100% of their schedule. As usual in the news world, no one bothered to crunch the numbers as I did. Maybe it’s because they don’t know how! Or perhaps it's more tabloid journalism, creating that scary headline.
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GeekOfTheWeekBy John MaGuirk