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Southwest Airways is making a change this week “to reduce the risk of in-flight turbulence injuries,” the corporate confirmed to FOX Enterprise.
The airline is altering procedures for crew members and clients beginning Wednesday. Fairly than making ready the cabin for touchdown at 10,000 toes, flight attendants will begin doing so at an altitude of 18,000 toes.
“It is the result of the airline’s close collaboration with its Labor partners and a robust approach to Safety Management,” Southwest mentioned in a press release. “Nothing is more important to Southwest Airlines than the Safety of our Customers and Employees.”
Per FAA laws, passengers are required to have their seat belts correctly secured throughout taxiing, takeoff and touchdown. Whereas the laws don’t outline the time period “properly secured,” passengers are required to comply with crew member directions concerning using security belts.
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The change additionally implies that cabin service will stop roughly 10 minutes earlier, USA At present reported.
In keeping with a 2023 research by researchers on the College of Studying within the U.Okay., clear-air turbulence has elevated in areas round the world. Over the North Atlantic, which is without doubt one of the busiest flight routes, the complete annual period of extreme turbulence elevated by 55% between 1979 and 2020.
Average turbulence elevated by 37%, and light-weight turbulence elevated by 17%. All of the will increase had been according to the consequences of local weather change, in response to the research, which was printed in Geophysical Analysis Letters.
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Passengers are required to have their seat belts correctly secured throughout taxiing, takeoff and touchdown, per FAA laws. (Nicolas Economou/NurPhoto through Getty Pictures / Getty Pictures)
Weeks in the past, a Scandinavian Airways flight was rerouted again to Europe after extreme turbulence compelled its return.
Again in August, a United Airways flight touring from Cancun to Chicago was diverted to Memphis, Tennessee, after the aircraft encountered “a brief period of severe turbulence” that left one passenger hospitalized and 6 others injured, officers mentioned.
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Dallas-based service Southwest is pivoting from the so-called open seating mannequin, charging a premium for the most effective seats, and providing red-eye flights, beginning in 2026, the airline mentioned in a September press launch.
FOX Enterprise’ Jasmine Baehr, Daniella Genovese and Stephen Sorace contributed to this report.
