The Latest Breaking News from Southwest Airlines

US Department of Transportation vows to investigate Southwest Airlines for cancellations following severe winter storm.

When it hasn’t been expensive to travel this holiday season, it’s been impossible. But a few major airlines are forgoing profits to help grounded Southwest customers.

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DALLAS — After taking desperate measures to try to stabilize its broken flight operations, Southwest Airlines could have its full schedule restored by Friday in time for another busy holiday travel weekend, company leaders told employees late Wednesday.

After a massive meltdown, the air carrier needs to take care of its thousands of upset customers and make systemic changes to antiquated systems.

Thousands of Southwest flight cancellations have caused a travel disaster nationwide — with tons of lost bags.

Southwest is struggling to recover after being overwhelmed by a winter storm that left hundreds of pilots and flight attendants stranded out of position to operate flights.

Through much of 2022, the most often-asked questions about Southwest Airlines concerned issues such as whether it would allow preassigned seating, start charging for all checked baggage and institute change fees — scrapping all those policies that have made the airline unique.

Southwest Airlines is still trying to extract itself from sustained scheduling chaos and cancelled another 2,350 flights after a winter storm overwhelmed its operations days ago