Southwest Cancels 60% Of Flights

More than 17,000 flights have been cancelled by U.S. airlines since Wednesday. Due to extreme cold, wind gusts or snow, airports across the United States experienced slowdowns. Flight cancellations eased but Southwest’s meltdown continued at the end of the holiday weekend. Milwaukee’s General Mitchell International Airport deices aircraft

Southwest Airlines More than 60% of the airline’s flights were cancelled Monday. Other carriers were able to ease disruptions caused by severe winter weather.

FlightAware. Over 17,000 flights were cancelled by American airlines after storms caused high winds, snow and ice across the country. This has caused delays in air travel between coasts. Crews had the task of dealing with severe weather at airports which caused delays.

Southwest announced Monday it was expecting “additional changes with an already reduced level of flights as we approach the coming New Year holiday travel period.”

Carriers will likely reveal the costs associated to the disruptions when they report next month’s results or sooner. Southwest Airlines had to deal with huge problems. Southwest Airlines faced enormous difficulties due to unexpected fog in San Diego, staffing shortages at Denver’s fuel vendor, and internal technology problems.

Delta Air Lines, American Airlines, United Airlines, JetBlue Airways Alaska Airlines They were among the airlines most affected by the storm. Others airlines had a higher rate of cancellations on Monday.

While Southwest’s problems continued Monday, other carriers have stabilized. Southwest cancelled more than 2,600 flights. This is approximately 65% of the airline’s scheduled flights. 820 more flights were also delayed. Delta had cancelled 9 % of its mainline flight Monday. United cancelled 12 flights; American less than 1% with 12 flights.

Monday saw more than 3200 U.S. bound flights cancelled.

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