Southwest Airlines Still Recovering From Massive Computer Outage
Delays and cancellations continue for Southwest Airlines on Friday morning after a massive computer outage knocked systems off-line on Wednesday.
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Delays and cancellations continue for Southwest Airlines on Friday morning after a massive computer outage knocked systems off-line on Wednesday.
Many Southwest Airlines passengers are still patiently waiting to get to their destinations. The problems began with intermittent computers issues and ended with dozens of delays and hundreds of cancellations.
Don't expect to find long lines or large crowds of stranded passengers at DFW International Airport, American Airlines' home airport and Dallas Love Field, home to Southwest Airlines.
The latest the figures are 1082 departing and arriving flights were canceled at Dallas Fort Worth International Airport Monday.
The 14 airlines covered in the government report canceled 1.2 percent of their U.S. flights in August, up from 1.0 percent a year earlier.
This winter was the worst for fliers in the 20 years that the government has been collecting data, the Department of Transportation announced Tuesday.
Though the immediate DFW area largely escaped icy roads and winter weather conditions, flights at DFW International Airport were still affected on Sunday.
Winter weather has forced the cancellation of at least 30% of flights at DFW Airport.
Snow and bitter cold snarled traffic and prompted another 1,650 U.S. flight cancellations nationwide on Monday, and some 15,000 North Texans were still without power after January-like weather barged in a month early.
Five people have died in weather-related accidents in Texas as a wintry storm system has left thousands without power and cancelled hundreds of flights.
American Airlines resumed most flights Wednesday, a day after a massive technology failure forced the nation's third-largest carrier to ground all planes from coast to coast.
The massive snow storm in the northeast didn't cause too many cancellations at DFW International Airport, which is great...unless yours is one of the flights cancelled.
That major Northeastern winter storm is causing dozens of flight delays and cancellations at DFW Airport.
