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The Highwire with Del Bigtree

WHAT CAUSED SOUTHWEST’S MASS CANCELLATIONS?

The Highwire with Del Bigtree

The Highwire with Del Bigtree

Health & Fitness, News, Society & Culture

4.93.4K Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2021

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Sickout? Bad weather? Staffing issues? Why did Southwest Airlines meltdown causing their internal issues to spill out on the public stage causing mass flight cancellations?

Transcript

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0:00.0

There's a lot of internal issues going on in the airline industry and that was really

0:05.5

the big story in America this past week and it really spilled out into the public via

0:09.5

the Southwest Airlines story that the previous guests mentioned.

0:13.2

So let's take a look at what that looked like.

0:14.8

Okay.

0:15.8

Absolute travel mess.

0:17.3

This was a disastrous weekend for Southwest.

0:19.8

Southwest Airlines is scrambling to control a travel fiasco.

0:23.0

Air travel nightmare across the country.

0:25.4

Travel insiders are calling this an operational meltdown.

0:28.6

You can see up and down the screams just canceled canceled canceled.

0:32.7

The carrier canceled 800 flights on Saturday 1100 flights on Sunday and another 360 flights

0:39.9

on Monday.

0:40.9

Sunday alone 27% of its fleet grounded frustration taking flight.

0:46.4

The company said we experienced weather challenges in our Florida airports at the beginning

0:51.1

of the weekend.

0:52.6

Challenges made worse by unexpected air traffic control issues in the same region, triggering

0:57.6

delays and prompting significant cancellations.

1:00.6

I think over half of our fleet touches the state of Florida.

1:04.0

I can't really speak to what their issues were or weren't.

1:07.5

There's no bad weather.

1:09.6

There's got to be something behind the scenes that they're not telling us.

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