The disruptions sparked speculation on social media that employees were calling out sick in protest. Southwest Airlines has issued a travel advisory related to weather and air traffic control issues. Southwest last week said it would enforce the Biden administration's policy that employees of federal contractors, which includes major airlines like Southwest, American and others, must be vaccinated against Covid-19, though he told CNBC he doesn't think companies should mandate vaccines.

The airline has already scaled back its fall schedule due to disruptions throughout the summer following complaints from exhausted crew. 'Southwest Airlines extends a tremendous apology to our Customers and Employees for the flight cancellations and delays which occurred over the weekend and on Monday,' the airline said in a statement on its website Tuesday.Ĭasey Murray, president of the Southwest Airlines Pilots Association, which represents the carrier's more than 9,000 pilots, told CNBC that the airline's poor planning was to blame for the issues. Southwest shares were up 1.3% in early afternoon trading after losing more than 4% Monday. The disruptions peaked at more than 1,100 cancellations on Sunday, about 30% of Southwest's flights that day just as the carrier scheduled the most flights in a day since April 2020, according to aviation consulting firm Cirium. Orlando flights were delayed an average of 45 minutes on Friday, according to a person familiar with the matter. Kelly said that each of the airports it serves in Florida was affected by air traffic control delays, 'including a seven-hour ground stop at Orlando.' Other airlines had relatively small numbers of cancellations compared with Southwest. Other airlines had relatively minor cancellations. The airline said bad weather and air traffic control issues in Florida kicked off the problems, which snowballed due to its own staffing shortfall, particularly a lack of backup pilots and flight attendants to step in when things go wrong. The Dallas-based airline since Saturday has canceled close to 2,400 flights, FlightAware data showed. American Airlines recently announced that they will cancel about 1% of their scheduled flights throughout the month of July.Southwest canceled 87 flights, or 2% of its schedule on Tuesday, according to flight-tracking site FlightAware. Southwest, however, is not alone in struggling with labor and other challenges facing the airline industry in this late-pandemic era. Was beyond stoked to be going to Chicago for a baby shower, to finally see my oldest brother and family I've not seen in so long and cancelled the flight, no other flight options and time to talk to a human about it runs 75+ minutes- Katie Putz June 26, 2021 According to FlightAware data, the airline canceled 518 flights. I loved every time I flew on Southwest before now but this is painful. Southwest Airlines apologized to customers after hundreds of flights were canceled and more than 1,000 were delayed on Saturday. 🤬- Mary June 25, 2021īeen on hold with Customer Service for over 95 minutes trying to get a rebooked flight cancelled. Trip home for grandma’s 85th bday = two cancelled flights, a night stranded in another city (would’ve been 2 but came to my rescue to get me home on time), and now another change for my return flight home. Texas congressman swears off 'eating a whole plate of dog penis' againĪ nightmare by.Houston nurse facing 6 counts of murder after fiery California car wreck.Former jail turned dive bar and live music venue in Spring now for sale.Houston's oldest deli built its business on secret family recipes for 70 years.World's rarest sea turtle lays eggs on new Galveston beach.Did Chip and Joanna Gaines' 'Fixer Upper' break Waco?.WATCH: Beto O'Rourke drops F-bomb at heckler over Uvalde shooting.

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