@CoyoteMan wrote: Southwest has been hacked and the whole system is dead. Other carriers might be as well. All flights that are not currently airborne are grounded until further notice No, that's not even close to true. What is true is that the third party Southwest (and others) use for weather data was experiencing performance issues and as such caused planes to be grounded, and similar problems were happening today. According to Flight Aware, about 30% of flights have been delayed or cancelled today. That's nowhere close to the whole system / fleet. More info: https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/southwest-alaska-airlines-delta-outage/index.html To the OP: Your son's flight was likely delayed due to this issue. --Jessica
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