BREAKING SouthwestAir says it plans to return to normal operations with minimal disruptions on Friday.
Over 15,000 flights have been canceled by Southwest over the past week. Alexis Christoforous has details.Southwest Airlines said it expects to return to normal operations Friday after slashing about two-thirds of its schedule in recent days, including canceling another 2,350 flights Thursday.
Other airlines are back to full strength. Delta, American and United together canceled around 30 flights by late morning, according to tracker FlightAware. The airline has declined requests to make executives available for comment and did not provide an update about operations on its website. Its main public outreach has been to post video statements by CEO Robert Jordan and its chief commercial officer.
Jordan didn't give a timeline or dollar figure for that investment, or explain why the airline had not already done the work. But his comments about the airline's archaic crew-scheduling system seemed to foreshadow one of the major causes of the current meltdown - the inability to get pilots and flight attendants in position when there is a disruption to the operation.
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