Southwest Airlines experiences nationwide flight disruptions due to technical issues.
TL;DR
Southwest Airlines briefly paused its departures on Tuesday due to technical problems, causing delays for more than 1,500 flights, or 36% of its schedule. The Federal Aviation Administration lifted the ground stop, but many flights were still delayed. The airline had a similar meltdown over the year-end holidays, resulting in thousands of flight cancellations and an $800 million pretax hit for the fourth quarter. The issues on Tuesday did not appear to be related to that software.
Topics:businesstransportation#faa#flight-delays#ground-stop#southwest-airlines#technical-problems#transportation
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