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2,500 Southwest Flight Cancellations Leave Stranded Passengers Seething In Post-Christmas Mess 2,500 Southwest Flight Cancellations Leave Stranded Passengers Seething In Post-Christmas Mess
2,500 Southwest Flight Cancellations Leave Stranded Passengers Seething In Post-Christmas Mess More than 2,500 Southwest Airlines flights were cancelled and 8,3072 delayed as of Wednesday, Dec. 28 leaving even more passengers across the US stranded and seething. Processes and computer systems that haven't changed since the 1990s are to blame, Captain Casey Murray, the president of the Southwest Airlines Pilots Association, tells CNN. “It’s phones, it’s computers, it’s processing power, it’s the programs used to connect us to airplanes," he said, "that’s where the problem lies, and it’s systemic throughout the whole airline." The federal government said it plans on investigating. Cu…

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Multiple Flights Canceled, Delayed At Philadelphia International Airport Multiple Flights Canceled, Delayed At Philadelphia International Airport
Multiple Flights Canceled, Delayed At Philadelphia International Airport Multiple flights were canceled and delayed due to snow Friday at Philadelphia International Airport. As of 11:30 a.m., 53 flights were delayed and 95 flights were canceled, according to FlightAware. Thirty-seven of those cancelations were from American Airlines; 20 were from PSA, and 18 were from Piedmont, the website says. The snow stopped at PHL around 7 a.m., the airport said in a Facebook post.  Thank you to our crews who have been working hard since last night to keep #PHLAirport’s runways and taxiways open. Snow... Posted by Philadelphia International Airport on Friday, January…

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by Nicole Acosta