Southwest Airlines faces an 'operational emergency'
It has been a rough Presidents Day weekend for Southwest Airlines. Since Friday, the carrier experienced more cancellations and delays than any other US airline. About 100 flights were canceled for maintenance reasons, as the airline struggles to keep up with an unusually high number of aircraft taken out of service for maintenance issues. In all, more than 40 planes a day have been out of service – that's more than double the usual average, and about 5% of Southwest's roughly 750-plane fleet. Southwest faces what its own managers call an operational state of emergency, due to an unusually high number of the airline's Boeing 737s being taken out of service for maintenance. The spike in out-of-service planes follows an investigation into mechanics' complaints of undue pressure to put aircraft back in service faster. <br/>
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Southwest Airlines faces an 'operational emergency'
It has been a rough Presidents Day weekend for Southwest Airlines. Since Friday, the carrier experienced more cancellations and delays than any other US airline. About 100 flights were canceled for maintenance reasons, as the airline struggles to keep up with an unusually high number of aircraft taken out of service for maintenance issues. In all, more than 40 planes a day have been out of service – that's more than double the usual average, and about 5% of Southwest's roughly 750-plane fleet. Southwest faces what its own managers call an operational state of emergency, due to an unusually high number of the airline's Boeing 737s being taken out of service for maintenance. The spike in out-of-service planes follows an investigation into mechanics' complaints of undue pressure to put aircraft back in service faster. <br/>
