DOT is probing whether Southwest’s schedules were ‘unrealistic’ during holiday meltdown

A Southwest Airlines passenger jet lands at Chicago Midway International Airport in Chicago, Illinois, on December 28, 2022. Kamil Krzaczynski | AFP | Getty Images The Transportation Department said W...

Southwest’s Holiday Meltdown And The Myth That It’s A Point-To-Point Airline

They connect passengers, too. getty In the media coverage of Southwest Airline’s holiday disaster, there have been all sorts of prognostications regarding the reasons for the meltdown which stranded a...

Southwest’s meltdown was born in America’s cheapskate corporate culture

Southwest passenger Amanda Gevorgyan looks for her luggage among hundreds of bags from Southwest Airlines flight cancellations at LAX. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times) Through much of 2022, the most o...