Southwest Airlines cancels more than 1,000 flights, delays hundreds more over fall holiday weekend

ABC7 News ^ | 10/10/2021

[simpson96]

NEW YORK -- More than 1,000 Southwest Airlines flights were canceled and hundreds more were delayed amid an increase in travel over the fall holiday weekend.

The flight-tracking website FlightAware.com shows that Southwest canceled 28% of its flights as of Sunday morning while hundreds more face delays.

More than 800 Southwest flights were canceled Saturday and upwards of 1,100 flights were delayed, according to FlightAware.

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"Some airlines continue to experience scheduling challenges due to aircraft and crews being out of place," an FAA spokesperson said in a statement.

[dandiegirl]

Good luck on American. If you must be somewhere you better start a day early due to their horrible service, massive flight delays and sudden cancellations. Flying has become very unreliable.

[Hildy]

I know.. but I want to see my friends. And I hate to drive.

[Hot Tabasco]

Oh, okay........

[ThanhPhero]

I am resigned to not returning to Việt Nam again. I had intended to go a least ne more time. perhaps for longer than usual but Việt Nam is still closed to travel and I won’t get the toxic vax so I can’t fly out of here.

[Jane Long]

Regarding American (our LEAST fave airline)....

URGENT: An American Airlines employee reports a similar effort is underway there

https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/urgent-an-american-airlines-employee/comments?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjo0NDgzMjEwNCwicG9zdF9pZCI6NDI0MjAyNDMsIl8iOiI4WXpZMSIsImlhdCI6MTYzMzg5ODQxNSwiZXhwIjoxNjMzOTAyMDE1LCJpc3MiOiJwdWItMzYzMDgwIiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.iBoUOBjLF_-OQ_ExmuOtruzfv59RTqBC5YX8aqHtYM8

[Jane Long]

Bump!!

[Jane Long]

Lol....turbulent!!

[buckalfa]

"I don’t think America can survive another 3 years of this."

That is the communists intent.

[blueunicorn6]

Oh, thank goodness.

[Chauncey Gardiner]

And they want to blame it on weather...

[Fledermaus]

Take the Ferry

[mewzilla]

Other airlines joining in?

[blueunicorn6]

Can’t.

Too many icebergs this time of year.

[Fledermaus]

Dang Conway icebergs

[blueunicorn6]

Manned by hundreds of polar bears.

[rllngrk33]

That would be “Indigenous Losers’ Day”

Let's compromise and make that "Conquered Indigenous Losers' Day".

[gas_dr]

You are of course correct. However the blogger states it was jax center ATC. Not Jax tower. So the wind and rain comments made were stupid as jax center handles aircrafts snivel FL180.

And if jax center were unmanned I am certain it would be prettily easily discovered.

[srmanuel]

I’ve mentioned this is 4-5 other threads today, but I track airplane traffic with my Raspberry PI and software provided by Flightaware....

About 6 months ago the Jacksonville ATC did shutdown due to a power failure and their backup power systems failed as well.

All the traffic in and out of Florida had to be rerouted, that has not happened this weekend, traffic has been normal, as far as I can tell the Jacksonville ATC has not had any issues

I don’t know where all this got started today but it’s bogus IMO, none of it is true...

[pepsi_junkie]

A couple of months ago the pilots of Spirit Airlines went on strike. The airline denied it, the media would not report it as Spirit cancelled hundred and hundreds of flights. Eventually they pilots put out a press release saying they actually were on strike.

I have to assume this is similar and similarly the media is pretending it's not happening.

[cgbg]

“Staffing issues” is going to be the secret code language for “vaxx mandates &^%$# the industry” in many different industries for months.

None of the “experts” will see it coming....