Southwest Grounds Flights Nationwide Attributable to Technical Points

DALLAS (AP) — Federal officers halted Southwest Airways flights from taking off on Tuesday.

By late morning on the East Coast, greater than 1,500 Southwest flights had been delayed, accounting for properly over half of all delays nationwide, in keeping with FlightAware.

Southwest mentioned on Twitter that it requested the Federal Aviation Administration to carry up departures due to “intermittent” technical points and hoped to renew flights as quickly as potential.

The airline didn’t instantly reply to questions in regards to the nature of the technical drawback.

The FAA mentioned solely that Southwest requested the pause on flights, and referred inquiries to the Dallas-based airline.

In December, Southwest canceled almost 17,000 flights over the Christmas vacation on account of dangerous climate and its crew-scheduling system changing into overwhelmed. These cancellations value the airline greater than $1 billion and are being investigated by the Transportation Division.

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