President Biden, members of his administration and lawmakers are taking aim at Southwest Airlines amid an ongoing holiday travel debacle in which the company has canceled more than 5,000 flights over the last two days.
that he was "closely" tracking the travel chaos, and would "have more to say about this tomorrow."
Without singling out Southwest, Biden encouraged affected passengers to visit the Department of Transportation's website to see if they were "entitled to compensation."Sens. Ed Markey, D-Mass., and Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., are directly pressuring Southwest to refund ticket prices and provide stranded passengers with "significant monetary compensation for disruption to holiday plans.
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