![]() Southwest offered customers a “tremendous apology” in a statement issued Monday that blamed bad weather, air traffic controller issues and “other external constraints” causing cancellations on Friday. “The employees there got blindsided as much as the travelers did,” Holland said. Some rumors floated that pilots and attendants were protesting Southwest’s companywide COVID-19 vaccine mandate, but the Dallas-based airline said Monday in a statement employee demonstrators had not caused the delays. Another 1,000 were canceled Sunday, 30% of the airline’s flights for the day. That’s an improvement from the weekend when Southwest canceled 800 flights Saturday – 24% of its schedule. Nearly 1,500 faced delays, or 41% of Southwest’s schedule, according to flight tracker FlightAware. The airline as of noon Monday canceled 10% of its scheduled flights for the day, over 360. On Monday, no cancellations had happened as of 4 p.m., according to the airport’s flight tracker page. was also postponed an hour and 40 minutes. was delayed an hour and a half, another from Las Vegas, Nev. In Spokane’s airport, some arriving and departing flights were delayed Monday. “I’m still going to fly with them when I go home,” said Evan Zimmerman, a software developer who flew into Spokane on a business trip aboard a flight delayed about an hour Monday morning. was canceled, rescheduled and delayed several times Sunday.įollowing Southwest Airlines’ hectic weekend amid thousands of flight cancellations, some Spokane International Airport passengers still found themselves facing delays on Monday. “Walking around the airport you’d see the list of ‘canceled, canceled, canceled’ all down the screen,” said Holland, whose flight from Burbank, Calif. Her flight had been scheduled to land more than six hours earlier. When Julie Holland finally got home Sunday night, it was 10 minutes to 3 a.m.
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