Southwest Faces Senate Hearing Following Holiday Meltdown Excerpts from CNBC Southwest Airlines’ chief operating officer, Andrew Watterson, will face questions from a Senate panel next Thursday about the carrier’s holiday meltdown that stranded hundreds of thousands of travelers. Southwest said the hearing date overlapped with “a previous commitment” for CEO Bob Jordan. Jordan, who has […]
Boeing to Face Criminal Charges A federal judge has rescinded Boeing’s immunity agreement related to the two 737 MAX crashes in 2018 and 2019. The Justice Department had originally reached the deferred prosecution agreement with Boeing in January 2019 in what Columbia Law Professor John Coffee described as “one of the worst deferred prosecution agreements […]
Another Week, Another Meltdown Excerpts from New York Times Frequent fliers know that feeling well, particularly as air travel has roared back from pandemic lows: Their flight has been delayed, and then they receive little information about when — or if — it will take off, stoking feelings of anger and hopelessness. But the Federal […]
Thousands of Flights Delayed After FAA Computer Glitch Excerpts from The Daily Upside Due to an overnight glitch early Wednesday morning in a critical Federal Aviation Administration computer system, nearly 8,000 flights have been delayed and over 1,000 flights have been canceled outright, according to flight tracker FlightAware. That raises a tricky question: If the […]
FAA Mandated Ground Stop is Seeing Ripple Effect Excerpt from CBS17 Flyers will be feeling the repercussions of Wednesday’s FAA-mandated ground stop of all fights nationwide for several days as the system rebounds from its cascade effect. What happened was last seen back on 9/11 when the FAA ordered a total nationwide ground stop of […]
Southwest Owes Passengers Refunds Excerpts from Slate Samantha Luna and four family members were supposed to spend Christmas in Las Vegas. Instead they spent $2,500 to sleep in Kansas City, their layover destination, and purchase tickets on another airline back to New York. When Luna tried to get a hotel voucher for her family, an […]
Southwest Airlines' Meltdown is a National Crisis Paul Hudson, president of FlyersRights.org, joins CNBC's 'Squawk Box' to weigh in on the meltdown at Southwest Airlines and whether it could spur lawmakers to enforce greater passenger protections against travel disruptions.
“Tired of the Apologies”: Southwest Airlines Workers & Flyers Excerpts from DemocracyNow The U.S. Department of Transportation says it will investigate cancellations and delays by Southwest Airlines after the airline canceled about two-thirds of its flights since a Christmas snowstorm. The unprecedented operational meltdown left thousands of travelers stranded, causing scenes of chaos at airports […]
Holiday Travel Tips to Keep Spirits Bright Excerpts from NBCCT Paul Hudson with FlyersRights.org says about one to five percent of flights are getting cancelled and as many as 25 percent are delayed. “You cannot count that your flight that you’re booking that will actually get you there in any way,” said Hudson. FlyersRights is […]
Boeing 737 MAX Concerns Drag on 4 Years Excerpts from Fierce Electronics Nearly four years after two Boeing 737 MAX crashes killed 346 people in Indonesia and Ethiopia, criticism is still being leveled at the aerospace giant for lack of complete public transparency concerning what happened. “What is still needed is for Boeing to demonstrate […]
