Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg spoke with the CEO of Southwest Airlines, Bob Jordan, amid the ongoing issues and mass cancellations the airline has experienced in the days leading up to Christmas and beyond.
Southwest CEO Bob Jordan apologized for the company’s travel issues in a video statement Tuesday evening, saying that the airline is determined to upgrade its systems “for these extreme circumstances so that we never again face what’s happening right now.”
Southwest Airlines’ travel woes are continuing as the major airline attempts to recover from what it has described as “operational challenges,” canceling over 2,600 flights on Tuesday alone.
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said Tuesday on CNN’s “Situation Room” that the government will hold Southwest Airlines accountable as they canceled thousands of flights over a system meltdown.
The Department of Transportation is investigating Southwest Airlines after the airline left thousands stranded following the cancellation of thousands of flights over the holiday weekend and beyond.
Southwest Airlines continues to struggle in the aftermath of the winter storm and holiday weekend, canceling over 70 percent of its flights on Monday alone.
Thousands of Americans are still in the midst of holiday travel woes following a winter storm rocking the United States leading up to Christmas weekend, but Southwest Airlines is under fire for having one of the highest volumes of cancellations.
The number of delayed and canceled flights is piling up as a winter storm sweeps the U.S., bringing freezing temperatures to areas as south as Texas and Florida as the country braces for the pre-Christmas blizzard.
A federal jury in Texas awarded a former flight attendant millions of dollars after she was fired in light of her abortion views.
Melinna Bobadilla, an actress on Netflix series Gentefied and Orange Is the New Black, says she was kicked off a “misogynistic” Southwest Airlines flight after defending a woman who was being “slut shamed” by a flight attendant.
A woman alleges Southwest Airlines workers refused to help her while she was in a wheelchair, which resulted in severe injury, according to court documents.
An Oklahoma couple tied the knot on a flight to Las Vegas after flight delays and a cancellation interrupted their original plans.
Airlines quickly dropped mask requirements on Monday after a Trump-appointed federal judge in Florida nixed the Biden administration’s federal mask requirement for public transportation, expressing great relief.
Upon hearing that the TSA will no longer be enforcing travel mask mandates aboard airlines, videos circulated around social media of passengers celebrating.
JetBlue intends to scale back its summer schedule as they are “staffing constrained,” according to reports. The reports follow consecutive weekends of flight cancellations and delays.
Flight delays and cancellations continue to plague the travel industry as over 6,700 flights within, into, or out of the United States were delayed Friday.
Upwards of 3,500 U.S. flights were scrapped over the weekend and thousands more delayed just as travel rebounds from the coronavirus pandemic. Weather, staff availability, airspace congestion, and “technology issues” were just some of the reasons airlines gave for the disruptions as Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg remained silent on the matter.
Thousands of Southwest flight attendants are demanding the end of the federal mask mandate for air travel as airline leaders across the country do the same.
U.S. airlines are getting restless and putting pressure on the Biden administration to lift the federal mask mandate for air travel, concluding that it makes “no sense” as people are “allowed to congregate in crowded restaurants, schools and at sporting events without masks.”
Several U.S. airlines on Wednesday demanded President Joe Biden drop the federal mask mandate on aircraft, along with international testing requirements.
Thousands of flights were canceled Thursday as Winter Storm Landon brings ice and snow to Texas and the midwest, up through the northeast. At least 4,740 flights were canceled within, into, or out of the United States, according to flight
Southwest Airlines said Sunday an internal investigation is underway after one of its pilots chanted “Let’s Go, Brandon” as a welcome to passengers over the plane’s intercom last week.
The meme that keeps on memeing memed a little more on Friday when a Southwest Airlines pilot chanted “Let’s Go, Brandon” over the intercom.
Southwest Airlines announced cuts to their flight schedule on Thursday after thousands of canceled flights earlier this month reportedly cost them $75 million.
Southwest Airlines dropped a plan to put unvaccinated workers with pending exemptions on unpaid leave after a December 8 deadline following protests by their employees.
Demonstrators, which include Southwest Airlines employees, gathered at the Southwest headquarters in Dallas, Texas, on Monday to protest the company’s vaccine mandate, holding signs and chanting the ever-popular anti-Biden slogan, “Let’s Go, Brandon!”
The aircraft manufacturing giant Boeing has ordered all 125,000 of its U.S. employees to be vaccinated by December 8.
Tuesday on “The Five,” Fox News host Geraldo Rivera said Rep. Chip Roy (R- TX) was getting ‘”sexual pleasure from the chaos and the disruption” at Southwest Airlines.
Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) said Tuesday Southwest Airlines is showing “no remorse” for firing employees for refusing to take the vaccine, which has reportedly caused hundreds of flight delays since the October 9
Southwest Airlines CEO Gary Kelly on Tuesday voiced his displeasure with the White House’s vaccine mandate for major airline companies but said his hand is being forced by federal rules.
Fox News Channel’s Tucker Carlson weighed in on the flurry of Southwest Airlines cancellations over the past several days during his show on Monday.
Southwest Airlines canceled more than 2,300 flights over the three-day federal holiday weekend, citing limited staffing and bad weather.
Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg remained silent the Monday after Southwest Airlines unexpectedly canceled over 1,800 flights, choosing instead to focus his message on Indigenous Peoples’ Day.
Southwest Airlines has reportedly cancelled 360 Monday flights, feeding an existing rental car frenzy that travelers must accept in order to reach destinations.
Just two days after the Southwest pilots union asked a federal judge to block the company’s vaccine mandate, the airline canceled flights.
Delta, Southwest, and American Airlines have all stated that there will be no vaccination mandates for their employees.
An Iowa family said Southwest Airlines denied them from boarding their connecting flight home from St. Louis, Missouri, because their five-year-old son with autism could not wear his mask.
American, United, and Southwest Airlines are grounding their Boeing 737 Max jets yet again due to what Boeing says are electrical system issues with the model.
A family removed from a flight to Austin, Texas, because their young son would not wear a mask eventually made it to their destination thanks to a local pilot.
Left-wing Hollywood stars Debra Messing and Piper Perabo are threatening a boycott of Southwest Airlines over the carrier’s refusal to condemn Texas’ election integrity bill, which the state’s senate passed last week.
