Southwest Airlines Crew Scheduling Solver Degenerates Flight Network

December 21, 2022

Southwest Airlines left passengers stranded for days throughout the flight network when Southwest crew scheduling software repeatedly failed to recover from weather-induced flight cancellations.
Alleged deployer
southwest-airlines
Alleged developer
general-electric
Alleged harmed parties
airline-passengers

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