. pete: good morning. it is sunday on fox & friends weaken and it is father s day. all the fathers we saw in that shot if you re on set including will cain, rachel campos duffy has a father too. rachel: i do i guess. happy father s day to both of you. so great to be here with it on father s day. you are some of my favorite dads. will: thank you very much. rachel: i m probably getting a father s day text. i will turn my phone off people don t know how well we get to know each other. one of the joys that i get to know you not just as friends but dads. what you talk about during the day. anyway for father s day, for mother s day we had a lot of surprises for you. i got nine exists i got nine kids. we got nine kids between the two of you. we ll have four 1/2 surprises for each of you. the first one i played right there for you. there you go. will: wow. pete: whoa. will: this is no small gift, man wow. look at this. pete: you got jordans for us. rachel: yeah. listen i had to sa
inefficiencies and internal processes. will: i hear you say both. there is not enough pilots. you mentioned you re in the process of hiring. i don t know it is unique to southwest. i saw it on american yesterday. what is the inefficiency, what does that mean, inefficiencies connecting pilots to flights? well, you know, we are seeing shortages on manpower, across the macro environment for the u.s. and southwest is definitely feeling but for us pilots we ve always been the most productive in the world at southwest. we still are but the problem is, is that inefficiently using the pilots, spending our time dead heading around the country. going to where we re not planning on going. it is causing fatigue. it is causing many other issues. it is causing those delays. it is causing those cancellations. will: captain, why is that unique right now? why did it happen? that sounds like if there is inefficiency in the system of assigning pilots that could have shown up a year ago.
why particularly right now? well i was on with you nine months ago during columbus day, i said the same thing. southwest has to address this we ve been seeing this going on for years. we ve always been the most productive pilots in the world and we have seen that sort of decline. that speaks directly to that inefficiency. so it is how pilots being used. will: really quickly, pete buttigieg, secretary of transportation, apparently called airline ceos to get it together. does that do anything to solve the problem? i think it is part of it. for us, we have a contract that is 2 1/2 years, you know, post the amenable date. that is causing issues recruiting pilots. it is kind of a system iic probm with us and going across the industry. will: it is already happening today. pete said he experienced it today. we re seeing similar cancellations and delays.