Christmas and the holidays are enough of a pain in the ass already, but Southwest Airlines found a way to make the season hurt even more.
Passengers line up at Southwest Airlines' Love Field ticket counter following thousands of flight cancellations.Christmas and the holidays are enough of a pain already, but Southwest Airlines found a way to make the season hurt even more.
This week, the airline had to delay or outright cancel 60 percent of its nationwide flights during one of the busiest traveling times of the year. The record-breaking blizzard that hit the Northeast is partly to blame, but some travel analysts and are speculating that internal corporate problems like poor communication channels, obsolete tech and sloppy scheduling are a major cause for the massive delays, according to a report from NPR'sMeanwhile, thousands of people are stranded on tarmacs and in airport terminals trying to get to their original destination or just trying to get back home after a hectic holiday.
For instance, Kalepopsicle posted on Reddit something that stranded passengers can do to help people stuck in airports all across the country. As flights get canned, luggage is starting to pile up in places they were never intended to go, so the Redditor suggests people do what Southwest seems to be incapable of doing: calling the phone numbers on the tags stuck to the lost luggage.
Stoolie Memes posted a video on Twitter of the lineups that Southwest has created. For the humorless, it should be noted that this is satire. It's really footage of 5 million Argentinians celebrating the return of the national soccer team.
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