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Six days in, Southwest has canceled more than 15,000 flights, and tomorrow may not

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Welcome to the lead.

I'm Phil Mattingley in for Jake Tapper.

Relief is still a few days away for Southwest Airlines passengers.

The airlines canceled more than 2,500 flights today.

More than 2,000 others already canceled tomorrow.

Including the total number of scrap Southwest flights north of 15,000 since bad weather

hit last week, airports are filled with long lines of Southwest passengers trying to

re-book, as piles of lost luggage continue to grow.

While other airlines recovered from the winter storm fairly quickly, Southwest, very obviously,

has not.

Yesterday, Southwest accounted for 84% of cancellations among all airlines.

Today, 91% of cancellations, and tomorrow, a whopping 99%.

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