![]() Many said the airline informed them their flights were canceled and reported getting cut off from customer services after waiting hours on the line. Southwest flyers expressed confusion on Twitter. ![]() It was not immediately clear whether the two incidents were related. Cancellations seem to be at a minimum, but more than 1,700 flights, around. shutdown came after a glitch Monday night prevented “transmission of weather information that is required to safely operate our aircraft,” the airline told Fox Business. USA TODAY 0:00 2:13 Southwest Airlines is resuming flights after temporarily grounding its entire network Tuesday. As of late morning Tuesday, Southwest Airlines had canceled nearly 2,600 flights nationwide, which was more than half of the cancellations of scheduled flights made by all airlines. Southwest passengers expressed frustration and confusion over customer service issues and the grounded flights. “We’re working with those Customers to get them to their destinations as quickly as possible,” said spokesman Chris Mainz. The carrier attributed Tuesday’s meltdown to “intermittent performance issues with… network connectivity,” and said it had “proactively canceled” about 500 flights because of the disruption. Tuesday.Īirline operations resumed shortly before 4 p.m., Southwest said in a statement. ![]() We will share more info soon,” Southwest posted on its official Twitter account at 2 p.m. “We are aware of system issues and are working quickly to resolve. Southwest Airlines grounded flights across the country Tuesday for the second time in less than 24 hours, amid reports of nationwide computer issues.Īir travelers took to Twitter by the thousands with reports of what airline staff reportedly told them was a computer system outage - hours after “intermittent performance issues” with a third-party weather app forced a similar group stop Monday night. #RiceGate: Airline delayed flight due to fight over spilled rice Southwest pilot turns aircraft catering truck into a tiny home Southwest Airlines pilots vote to authorize strike as they push for pay raises in new contract Air travelers say you really should avoid flying this airline
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