Southwest Airlines has canceled 9,400 flights in past 6 weeks, and more are on way
Southwest Airlines' operations have been a mess since mid-February, and the airline Wednesday tallied the damage: 9,400 flight cancellations and counting. That's equivalent to cancelling all of its flights for nearly 2.5 days. Put another way, the total approaches the combined number of flight cancellations on Southwest's 20 single worst days for cancellations since 2011. The carrier blamed the unprecedented flight cancellations on a trio of problems: winter weather, a high-profile labour dispute with its mechanics' union and the recent FAA grounding of the Boeing 737 Max 8. A Southwest spokesman said the heavy flight cancellations of the past 6 weeks will put Q1 into contention as the worst quarter for cancellations in Southwest history. <br/>
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Southwest Airlines has canceled 9,400 flights in past 6 weeks, and more are on way
Southwest Airlines' operations have been a mess since mid-February, and the airline Wednesday tallied the damage: 9,400 flight cancellations and counting. That's equivalent to cancelling all of its flights for nearly 2.5 days. Put another way, the total approaches the combined number of flight cancellations on Southwest's 20 single worst days for cancellations since 2011. The carrier blamed the unprecedented flight cancellations on a trio of problems: winter weather, a high-profile labour dispute with its mechanics' union and the recent FAA grounding of the Boeing 737 Max 8. A Southwest spokesman said the heavy flight cancellations of the past 6 weeks will put Q1 into contention as the worst quarter for cancellations in Southwest history. <br/>
