[HN Gopher] Southwest Airlines: a case study in brittleness
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       Southwest Airlines: a case study in brittleness
        
       Author : cratermoon
       Score  : 6 points
       Date   : 2022-12-31 21:33 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (surfingcomplexity.blog)
 (TXT) w3m dump (surfingcomplexity.blog)
        
       | lost_soul wrote:
       | Southwest executives understood that they were running on
       | borrowed time with their crew scheduling software. At the very
       | least an alternate or secondary process should have been in
       | place.
       | 
       | The US air traffic control network is a good example. In case of
       | a primary failure, there exist secondary procedures adopted from
       | before air traffic control radar was common.
        
       | chiefalchemist wrote:
       | Case study? Where? This "analysis" is closer to: it broke
       | therefore it was brittle.
       | 
       | What we'll eventually find out this: based on some investment /
       | return, the system did what it was designed to do based on some
       | set of profit-deliverable assumptions.
       | 
       | Then there was a black swan.
        
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