Posted on Dec 30, 2022
Southwest's antiquated and atypical flight systems are partially responsible for cancellation...
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Photos and videos of abandoned luggage, cranky customers, and exhausted employees consumed Twitter amid the nearly 5,000 canceled flights within the US on Tuesday.
The deadly winter storm that whipped through the country over the weekend ruined holiday plans for scores of travelers, but no airline was more impacted than Southwest, which canceled more than 60% of its flights on both Tuesday and Wednesday.
The company's cancellations accounted for more than 50% of all domestic cancellations on Tuesday, according to the flight tracking website FlightAware, resulting in a growing number of furiously-stranded patrons.
The deadly winter storm that whipped through the country over the weekend ruined holiday plans for scores of travelers, but no airline was more impacted than Southwest, which canceled more than 60% of its flights on both Tuesday and Wednesday.
The company's cancellations accounted for more than 50% of all domestic cancellations on Tuesday, according to the flight tracking website FlightAware, resulting in a growing number of furiously-stranded patrons.
Southwest's antiquated and atypical flight systems are partially responsible for cancellation...
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Now that he's out of a job, Sam Brinton is salivating every time he sees all that luggage...
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Amn Dale Preisach
You may remember the Island of misfit toys. This is the station of mishandled luggage .
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COL Randall C.
Rudolph The Rednosed Reindeer - The Island of Misfit Toys
Rudolph made his television debut on NBC in 1964, when Rankin/Bass produced a stop motion animated TV special of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer that became a...
(sung to the tune of The Most Wonderful Day Of The Year from Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer)
We're at the station of mishandled luggage.
Here we don't want to stay.
We want to go home with our owner every single day!
A suitcase of toys means a sack full of joys
For millions of girls And for millions of boys
When Found Stuff Day is here - The most wonderful day of the year.
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* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gr6GbKciNCY
We're at the station of mishandled luggage.
Here we don't want to stay.
We want to go home with our owner every single day!
A suitcase of toys means a sack full of joys
For millions of girls And for millions of boys
When Found Stuff Day is here - The most wonderful day of the year.
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* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gr6GbKciNCY
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Just had to post this link to pictures of unclaimed baggage...it could take weeks or longer to sort this all out
https://www.stltoday.com/news/national/photos-scenes-at-us-airports-amid-southwest-cancellations/collection_ea1090da-9c24-57df-b1df-1d7872a3d812.html#5
https://www.stltoday.com/news/national/photos-scenes-at-us-airports-amid-southwest-cancellations/collection_ea1090da-9c24-57df-b1df-1d7872a3d812.html#5
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