Appearing on Squawk Box Thursday morning, Southwest Airlines CEO Gary Kelly expressed frustration with the government's use of furloughs on the Federal Aviation Administration to carry out sequestration cuts.
"The briefing that was provided by the government was last week. And even then, there were no details offered. In other words, what airports? What flights? What type of day? And we still don't know from a day-to-day basis. So there's no way for us to -- there are suggestions we should adjust our schedules, but we have to idea on a day-to-day basis where we might need to adjust our schedules," Kelly said.
The FAA began furloughing air-traffic controllers in order to comply with the required cuts imposed by sequestration. Those furloughs have led to long flight delays across the country.
Senator Tom Coburn (R., Ok) placed blame on government cronyism for the FAA's lack of planning in the face of sequester Thursday, pointing out that the president's 2013 budget "has less money in it for the FAA than the FAA will have after the sequester."
