In great moments in MBA management there cannot me much that tops Southwest Airlines promoting the executives responsible for their catastrophic meltdown in December.
I guess that being an MBA means never having to say you're sorry.
Seriously, there is a reason that our pampered elites are incompetent, they can only fail up:
In the wake of a Christmas meltdown that saw it cancel some 16,700 flights, one would expect heads to roll at Southwest Airlines, but that's not the case.
Instead, several of the company's leaders - including the VP in charge of planning its aircraft network - are being promoted.
Southwest announced a quintet of leadership promotions Monday that it said are part of structural changes that began last September and which "will strengthen our operational execution and better serve our people and customers."
The most notable promotion is going to Adam Decaire, SWA's former vice president of network planning, who is now the company's senior veep of network nlanning and Network Operations Control (NOC).
SWA describes its NOC as "the heart for major operational decisions and coordination," which includes employees like dispatchers, meteorologists, crew schedulers and others who keep its network of planes moving smoothly ... usually.
Southwest said Decaire's promotion "creates a tighter feedback loop between schedule design and schedule execution while adding resiliency and reliability to the network," and said he has championed the design and deployment of new technologies and solutions for network planning at SWA.
Seriously? These guys are getting fucking promotions?
Can you say death spiral? Good, I knew you could.
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