Southwest Airlines Community

Bill, your garage-o-mixer turned into true schedule optimizer this year is fascinating. I understand you want to keep it proprietary, as would I. We met with Northwest and they too put out a marketing schedule. I'm not sure how they do that either. What I'm very curious about is how Southwest applies tail numbers to the marketing plan. And how you get maintenance activies completed. Who or where might I talk to about that? Steven ... View more

Bill, because you are not a hub & spoke airline, how do you plan & schedule maintenance? I imagine each airport has the minimum required mechanics with the skills to do most of the work. But hub-and-spoke airlines put the majority of their specialists in the their Hubs, and they route airplanes to the Hubs to blitz the majority of work done all at one. My chemical company is looking to benchmark with the airlines to become more efficient at planning and scheduling reactors. Any information you can give will be benneficial. Thank you, Steven ... View more