Dallas: Air Southwest Airlines canceled hundreds of flights again Monday after the weekend of the main service disorder.
By the middle of Monday, Southwest has canceled around 360 flights and more than 600 others were delayed.
Dallas-based airlines blame the problem of air traffic control and bad weather for “operational challenges” weekend which produced 1,900 flights were canceled on Saturdays and Sundays.
Federal flight administration, which provides air traffic control services, takes unusual steps to push back against southwestern explanations.
Southwest Airlines is the only airline to report a large percentage of flights that are canceled and delayed during the weekend.
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Shares Briefly fell more than 4% on Monday before partial recovery; They fell 2% by midmorning.
Southwest has struggled throughout the summer with its height with a delayed and canceled flight number.
In August it announced it cut September schedule with 27 daily flights, or less than 1%, and 162 flights a day, or 4.5% from the schedule, from the beginning of October to November 5.
The White House has pushed the airline to adopt a vaccine mandate because of them Paid based on a federal contract, made them submit to the order of President Joe Biden that federal contractors needed vaccination among employees.
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to announce vaccination requirements.
Southwest remained silent even after Biden announced the command of the Federal Contractor and the Great Employer.
Finally last week Southwest told their employees to be fully vaccinated on December 8 to keep their work.
Workers can ask to skip fire for medical or religious reasons.
When the scope of the Southwest Operational Crisis became clear during the weekend, the Pilot Union denied reporting that the pilot was holding a sickout or slowdown to protest the vaccine mandate.
The Southwest Air Pilot Airlines Association said “has not been authorized, and will not forgive, any work action.” The Union offers another explanation: said the Southwest operation “has become fragile and subject to a massive failure under the slightest pressure” due to lack of support from the company.
This union complains about the “tense relationship” between it and the company.
Savanthi Syth, an Airleal analyst for Raymond James, said that weekend problems will increase the southwestern costs and worsen relations that are tense with trade unions.