will jacksonville and route center and only after the f a announcement did southwest president, mike van de then finally, amid to its employees on monday things got out of control because the airline didn't have adequate staffing. in fact, according to the department of transportation, south was currently has 7000 fear employees, then the airline had before the pandemic. and that's because when air travel launch at the beginning of the pandemic south was offered by out and early retirement packages to reduce staff. now, although the weakens problems were mainly limited to southwest, it is by no means the only airlines struggling to restore stuff. and slides that were trim, dornbush fan pandemic, and fixing these problems will be expensive and time consuming and are likely to cause a further pain for passengers returning to the skies. ok, so obviously that's, that's a problem that southwest was an honest to begin with about this. but there have also been rumors that the staff shortage was actually caused by some kind of a account that was taking place. essentially, employees who were being t