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Richard N. Velotta

Southwest’s holiday meltdown was decades in the making

Are you done with Southwest Airlines, after your Christmas and New Year’s travel was ruined by the airline?

You shouldn’t be. Southwest is expected to undertake a technology upgrade that would fix some of its longtime operational issues.

While a massive winter storm was initially blamed for Southwest canceling an estimated 16,000 flights over a four-day period, the airline’s problems are much deeper, according to a Southwest pilot, who turned to Facebook to explain the meltdown that occurred last month, and an aviation expert, who has been tracking Southwest for decades.

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