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Southwest spent billions on gifts

Airline in "full-blown meltdown" offered hefty handouts to investors rather than fixing its antiquated systems

Salon

Southwest Airlines flight cancellations continue to snowball

Another 2,500 flights are being pulled from arrival and departure boards Wednesday and more are expected throughout the day.

Chicago Sun-Times

Southwest Airlines flight cancellations continue to snowball

Families hoping to catch a Southwest Airlines flight after days of cancellations, missing luggage and missed family connections are suffering through another wave of scrubbed flights

The Independent UK

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Southwest canceled their flights. Then 4 strangers had an adventure

LOS ANGELES — Deborah Rombaut was not at Sacramento International Airport to make friends. She just wanted to get home to Los Angeles.

Los Angeles Times

Southwest cancels another 4,800 flights as its reduced schedule continues

The airline's CEO says the company is hoping to be "back on track before next week." But until then, it's continuing on a reduced schedule.

WEKU

Buttigieg vows Southwest Airlines will be held ‘accountable’ for 15,700 cancelled flights over holidays

Transportation Secretary says airline has ‘completely melted down’ after cancelling more than 15,000 flights since 22 December

The Independent UK

Far from a shock, Southwest meltdown was ‘perfect storm’ of well-known vulnerabilities

As chaos at Southwest Airlines brought misery to thousands of frustrated travelers and growing scrutiny from U.S. regulators and lawmakers, many in the aviation industry said the massive cancellation of flights by the nation’s largest domestic carrier was far from surprising.

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Sandy Banks: Southwest Airlines becomes the Grinch that stole Christmas travel

The numbers tell a sobering story of Southwest Airlines' holiday collapse: thousands of flights abruptly canceled, and thousands upon thousands of travelers stranded for days in airport terminals.

Los Angeles Times

Editorial: Deregulation got us cheap flights. It also got us this travel nightmare

Pictures of travelers still marooned in airports over the long holiday week are deeply disturbing.

Tribune News Service

How Southwest Airlines ground to a halt, leaving more passengers stranded than other big carriers

Analysts say Southwest’s point-to-point flight system, antiquated technology, go-it-alone ticketing and overworked employees led to massive holiday breakdown.

Chicago Sun-Times

Stranded holiday travelers resort to Greyhound and car rentals, hoping to get home by 2023

The arctic blast that started Thursday couldn’t have come at a worse time for the holiday travelers who were left stranded in airports across the U.S.

Tribune News Service

Transportation Department to scrutinize Southwest after high rate of cancellations

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Transportation announced it will investigate Southwest Airlines’ onslaught of cancellations that stranded thousands of travelers and their luggage at airports and wreaked havoc on holiday plans.

Tribune News Service

Southwest Airlines’ holiday meltdown brings on federal investigation

The Dallas-based airline has canceled more flights than any other airline during the holidays, prompting federal investigators to ask why.

The Texas Tribune

Southwest Airlines will fly one-third of its scheduled flights this week, and customers are furious

Southwest stock has dropped 6% after the airline canceled two-thirds of its flights this week.

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WEKU

The blizzard is just one reason behind the operational meltdown at Southwest Airlines

Southwest isn't the only airline experiencing delays and cancellations, but it is by far the worst-hit, with about 5,500 of its flights canceled across the country in the last two days.

Fortune

The story behind Southwest's terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad week

A winter storm was only the "catalyst" behind this week's air travel chaos.

The Independent UK

US government to review ‘unacceptable’ cancellations by Southwest Airlines as travel chaos continues

Thousands of flights have been cancelled amid frigid weather across United States

Tribune News Service

Trying to rebook your Southwest flight for before 2023? You might have some trouble

DALLAS — Some travelers may ring in the new year somewhere different than they planned after Southwest Airlines’ holiday season meltdown has prevented passengers from rebooking their cancelled flights until 2023.

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The Independent UK

Southwest Airlines cancels 70 per cent of flights amid winter Storm Elliott

“In all likelihood, we’ll have another tough day tomorrow as we work our way out of this,” CEO says

Tribune News Service

Will labor strife led by pilots become the airline industry’s next big obstacle?

The big challenges of 2022 — COVID and inflation — posed no obstacle to travelers, but finding enough pilots slowed down the travel recovery.

Tribune News Service

Southwest cancels 62% of flights, leaving holiday travelers stranded nationwide

Southwest Airlines canceled almost two-thirds of its flights Tuesday, remaining hobbled by a massive winter storm that most major rivals were able to recover from with greater ease.

Axios

Why Southwest is canceling more flights after winter storm meltdown

The airline expects a tough week ahead for travelers.

Tribune News Service

Southwest Airlines apologizes as DOT announces probe into holiday cancellations

Southwest Airlines apologized to customers Monday after canceling more than 2,700 flights nationwide — more than two-thirds of its schedule — as it tries to recover from an operational meltdown stretching back to an arctic storm on Thursday.

Roll Call

DOT to scrutinize Southwest after high rate of cancellations - Roll Call

The Transportation Department announced that it will investigate Southwest Airlines' onslaught of cancellations Monday and Tuesday.

Al Jazeera

US probes ‘unacceptable’ Southwest Airlines storm cancellations

Airline cancels more than two-thirds of scheduled flights over Christmas break amid a devastating winter storm.

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