Hundreds More Southwest Flights Canceled Monday After Brutal Weekend as Pilots Fight Covid Vax Mandate
Hundreds more Southwest flights were canceled Monday morning after a brutal weekend of service disruptions as pilots fight the Covid vaccine mandate.
Nearly 2,000 Southwest flights were canceled over the weekend and the cancelations continued into Monday morning.
Southwest Airlines canceled hundreds more flights Monday following a weekend of major service disruptions. Have you, or anyone you know, been affected by Southwest Airlines’ flight cancellations? https://t.co/1GjCbTI67W
— KATV News (@KATVNews) October 11, 2021
By Monday morning 365 Southwest flights were canceled and more than 600 were delayed.
Thousands of angry passengers were stranded due to the cancelations and Southwest went into damage control mode.
Southwest claimed the flights were canceled due to bad weather in Florida and air traffic control issues although their competitors in the region have reported far less cancelations.