Southwest Airlines is making a number of executive promotions, but nobody is getting fired after thousands of flights were canceled in late December.
The Dallas-based airline announced five executive promotions on Monday, none involving the highest-ranking jobs at the airline.
Southwest says the shuffling will improve its operation by bringing schedule design and schedule execution closer together.
A spokesman says no one is getting demoted or left the company in connection with the moves.
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Southwest canceled more than 16,700 flights over the last 10 days of December.
The meltdown started with a winter storm and got worse when Southwest's crew-rescheduling technology broke down under the strain of re-assigning thousands of pilots and flight attendants.
