The Heir/Tropical Soulvangelical/TSV believes he already figured out why Southwest Airlines had cancelled and grounded at least 60% of its flights, leaving people stranded, as opposed to other airlines that have roughly a 4% grounded rate. He believes its because Southwest fired/laid-off/encouraged its older and more experienced, and hence more competent, staff to quit, and replace that staff with inexperienced college graduates, and possible cronies. The staff TSV believes Southwest Airlines fired TSV believes were part of flight coordination. We're not talking about pilots or crew. We're talking about people in offices around the country whose job it is to make sure a given plane goes to a given airport where it's needed, outside of actual air traffic controllers. The older workers TSV believes had it down to a science, but because they're -old- TSV believes Southwest got worried about health insurance costs for these workers, and it's pretty ageist. So he thinks it's college graduates now, along with cronies and family members of vice presidents, etc. So he's seeing age discrimination, cronyism and nepotism, and of course he believes these things are going on because of Trump. Trump made it acceptable to do illegal and unacceptable things, so why wouldn't Southwest follow suit? Why didn't the -other- airlines do so? Because TSV believes they used good old fashioned common sense management, even Jet Blue, hardly the most popular carrier out there. But TSV is a bit of a train fan, so he's encouraging people to "next time take the train." People who wanted to fly cross-country back home on Southwest Airlines in a manner of 6-8 hours ended up spending up to 6-8 days sleeping on floors of airports. A cross-country train like the Silver Liner or Cross Deseret TSV believes it's called would hardly take 3-4 days. So you want to sleep in airports for 8 days because you still want to get home in 8 hours? How Type-A is that? So it'll probably be March or April of next year before we start doing public hearings as to what happened in late 2022, long after people totally forgot. And TSV is not very impressed with the Corporate Response of Southwest's executive. It reminded him of Boeing's executive's Corporate Response to the crashes of the 737 Max airplane. He doesn't see sincere contriteness or willingness to take responsibility, something we need to encourage our children to know how to do.