A Buffalo couple who sheltered a deceased woman’s body during a blizzard was praised by the woman’s son for their heroic actions after she collapsed during the historic storm. The woman, identified as Carolyn Eubanks, 63, died as her son, Antwaine Parker, and his stepbrother, Kenneth Johnson, attempted to move her from her home on …
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Most Southwest Airlines flights aren’t going anywhere, and frustration levels for scores of travelers across the country are soaring. They’ve slept at airports, spent hours on the phone trying to get a customer service agent, scrambled to find alternative flights and shelled out money for alternative transportation to their destinations — or back home. In …
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The Transportation Department announced it will investigate Southwest Airlines’ onslaught of cancellations that stranded hundreds of travelers and their luggage at airports and wreaked havoc on holiday plans. Although passengers were told to expect cancellations and delays after a weekend snowstorm swept through the country, Southwest canceled more than 70 percent of its flights on …
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The massive winter storm that battered the country over the weekend hasn’t just snowed under half of the United States. The airline industry is also on ice: Thousands of flights have been canceled, and although air travel is slowly returning to normal, one carrier in particular—Southwest Airlines—is struggling hard to unmuddle itself. Southwest canceled 63 …
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At a news conference in Houston, Southwest spokesman Jay McVay said cancellations snowballed as storm systems moved across the country, leaving flight crews and planes out of place. “So we’ve been chasing our tails, trying to catch up and get back to normal safely, which is our No. 1 priority, as quickly as we could,” …
Thousands of travelers were stranded at airports or stuck on hold trying to rebook flights this week as a massive storm snarled travel in the U.S. and Canada. More than 2,800 more flights had already been canceled in the U.S. as of 7 a.m. Tuesday, according to the flight tracking service FlightAware, and problems are likely to …
Southwest Airlines is grappling with a wave of cancellations and delays that are stranding holiday travelers, a situation the CEO says highlights its need to modernize its operation. While most carriers were plagued by winter storms over the holiday weekend, only Southwest was forced to cancel a majority of its trips, pointing to systemic scheduling …
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Major U.S. airlines were broadsided by the massive weekend winter storm that swept across large swaths of the country but had largely recovered by Tuesday, except for one. Problems at Southwest Airlines appeared to snowball after the worst of the storm passed. It cancelled more than 70% of its flights Monday, more than 60% on …
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