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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Nader Issa

Frustration and baggage mount at Midway in post-Christmas Southwest Airlines chaos

Passengers search for their luggage at the baggage claim area at Midway International Airport on Monday. Three carousels were shut down and the remaining carousels overflowed with arriving luggage falling on top and over each other. (Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Sun-Times)

Frustrated families spent hours in check-in lines and searching through a sea of baggage Monday at Chicago’s Midway International Airport in a post-Christmas travel mess that saw thousands of Southwest Airlines flights canceled and delayed.

The airline suffered a "wide-scale disruption" in service that left thousands of customers stranded across the country and their suitcases in different cities as a winter storm upended holiday travel.

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