Southwest Airlines flights grounded due to technical issues
All Southwest Airlines flights are domestic
ABOVE: A look at today̵[ads1]7;s top headlines All Southwest Airlines flights were grounded across the country Tuesday due to technical issues. According to the FAA, the airline asked the FAA to pause the airline’s flights. Southwest tweeted: “We have had to implement a ground stop as a result of intermittent issues experienced and we should hopefully resume our operations as soon as possible.” Flight tracking website FlightAware said more than 1,200 Southwest flights were delayed. Late last year, a winter storm swept through the United States, disrupting thousands of flights. Although many airlines were able to recover relatively quickly, Southwest Airlines did not return to normal operations for several days. Crew members were stranded because they were unable to communicate with the dispatchers and schedulers, and the airlines’ old technology could not keep up with the speed of change. Southwest later said in an action plan that it has “taken many weeks of work to sort through the complexity of contributing factors” and “the root causes and lessons learned guide our efforts to make Southwest better prepared to handle truly extreme winter weather events as we move forward.” This is a developing story. Reedy Creek deal Osceola sheriff: First grade teacher arrested for sexually abusing teenage boy Father, 2 young children killed in Florida mobile home fire CNN contributed to this report
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All Southwest Airlines flights were grounded nationwide Tuesday due to technical issues.
According to the FAA, the airline asked the FAA to pause the airline’s flights.
Southwest tweeted: “We have had to implement a ground stop as a result of intermittent issues experienced and we should hopefully resume our operations as soon as possible.”
Flight tracking website FlightAware said more than 1,200 Southwest flights were delayed.
Late last year, a winter storm swept through the United States, disrupting thousands of flights. Although many airlines were able to recover relatively quickly, Southwest Airlines did not return to normal operations for several days. Crew members were stranded because they were unable to communicate with the operators and planners, and the airlines’ legacy technology could not keep up with the speed of change.
Southwest later said in an action plan that it has “taken many weeks of work to sort through the complexity of contributing factors” and “the root causes and lessons learned are guiding our efforts to make Southwest better prepared to handle extreme winter weather events as we move forward.”
This is a development story
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