Southwest has cancelled about 16,000 flights in a week
The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown
CNN
3.2 • 865 Ratings
🗓️ 29 December 2022
⏱️ 78 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Happening now. The Southwest Airlines crisis is taking a growing |
| 0:06.7 | toll with thousands of additional flights canceled today. Federal scrutiny |
| 0:11.8 | is intensifying as stranded customers demand action. |
| 0:16.0 | Also tonight, parts of Buffalo, New York remain paralyzed by a once in a lifetime blizzard. |
| 0:22.0 | The National Guard now going door to door as the death toll keeps |
| 0:26.0 | rising and the city struggles to dig out. And as the January 6th Select Committee is expected to release another batch of transcripts, |
| 0:35.0 | I'll speak with a key panel member, Congressman Adam Schiff. |
| 0:38.5 | Stand by for his take on the latest revelations, including a claim that Trump's White House Chief of Staff burned documents at the |
| 0:46.2 | White House. |
| 0:47.8 | Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world. |
| 0:51.5 | I'm Wolf Flitzer, you're in the situation room. |
| 0:53.6 | Let's get right to the Southwest Airlines meltdown now in its seventh day and still causing major disruptions across the country. |
| 1:08.5 | Our correspondence are covering all the angles in the story from the impact at major airports to the fallout for |
| 1:14.7 | Southwest and the airline industry. First let's go to CNN as Nick Valencia. He's over |
| 1:20.1 | at the Atlanta Airport, the busiest airport in the nation, Nick, how are Southwest passengers |
| 1:26.0 | being affected there? |
| 1:27.0 | Wolf, some passengers flying southwest still dealing with the drama here seven days later and |
| 1:34.2 | looking at the line here the ticket counter behind me you would think that this |
| 1:37.0 | problem would be resolved by the few people in line but that's just a reflection of |
| 1:41.0 | how few flights are taking off today from Southwest and the more |
| 1:44.2 | than 2,500 flights that the airline canceled today. |
| 1:49.7 | Nobody alerted us that the flight was canceled. |
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