For anyone looking to fly to a New Year’s festival in the next few days, they should be aware of the massive wave of cancellations from the popular airline Southwest that could cause some serious travel issues.
Over the course of 48 hours, Southwest canceled 5,400 flights across the United States: 2,900 on Monday (70% of its daily schedule) and 2,500 on Tuesday (60% of its daily schedule.)
Now the issues continue on Wednesday as the airline cancelled another 2,500 flights for over 90% of all flight cancellations that day. But the issues will persist as a statement from the CEO confirmed the airline will only fly about a…