I'm a bit confused by news "reporting" of this, and the surprise of people learning about this. Southwest Airlines announced back in November 2020 that they were going to be doing a bunch of layoffs and changing their schedules around. They announced it again in December.
In August of this year (2 months ago) they announced they'd be cutting flights and laying off more people through November 5.
It was an announced thing, it's not a "gotcha" situation, conspiracy, or coverup at all.
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