This is a master thread about Southwest Airlines layoffs? Any chatter, news or rumors?
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@z7g You are saying the plan is to reduce flights and crew to those 3 airports. Why would those cities be targets for reduction over other cities?
California bay area airports . SJC, OAK, SMF are about the get the ATL treatment.
Anymore news about possibility of further layoffs happening?
What's shocking is the reorg after QMO was hit.
Long time veteran were let go off just to get replaced with quentelli. There is some huge back door thing going on in there. And final product ? All Americans layed off, H1B survives.
@x7y I do not believe it is 40% of technology. The numbers in hearsay is closer to 50-60 people in tech. Cannot speak for QMO team since they were hit harder.
@x7y Yes, that is correct. But shockingly no news anywhere.
@x7w No news anywhere
Heard 40% head count down on Technology team? half of QMO is let go?
Total layoff 54 today across teams from IT.
@OP Southwest layed off 48 people today from tech roles.
Org change coming in June
Looks like they are rebadging 50-60 to Qentelli in the QMO area. Layoffs on the way.
Topping the lists in 2026, per wsj:
Southwest Airlines ranked first in the WSJ's 2025 airline scorecard, marking its first win since 2020 and ending Delta's four-year streak at the top.
• Southwest excelled with the fewest customer complaints and tarmac delays, and was second best in on-time arrivals and cancellation rates.
• American and Frontier tied for last place because of significant reliability issues, with American's cancellation rate rising to 2.2%.
@OP Have it on good authority from the head of a large consulting company that layoffs similar to the ones in Jan of 2025 are coming in Jan of 2026.