Southwest Airlines Community

By this time the past few days, Southwest had already cancelled 50% or more of their flights the following day. Today (Thursday) is showing a total of 39 cancelled flights for Friday (less than 1% of the schedule.). I also read that Southwest has resumed selling tickets for flights beginning on Friday. It really looks like they may be on track to operate a fairly regular schedule on Friday. ... View more

Oh, I think the Feds are going to come down hard enough on Southwest for this occurrence that the company will have no choice but to fix the tech infrastructure behind it. The problem for the consumer is going to be that we'll end up paying for the fix through higher fares in 2023. I like Southwest. They've never done me wrong, so I'll keep flying with them. This is the first bad experience I've had with them and they're still the most convenient option out of my home airport for the destinations I typically travel to. ... View more