Southwest Airlines briefly pauses flights nationwide over computer glitch

[ad_1] Southwest blamed the problem on “data connection issues resulting from a firewall failure,” according to a statement. “Early this morning, a vendor-supplied firewall went down and connection to some operational data was unexpectedly lost. Southwest Teams worked quickly to minimize flight disruptions,” the airline said. DOT Secretary Pete Buttigieg,Continue Reading

Southwest apologizes to Congress for winter meltdown

[ad_1] Watterson explained that while the airline had “precanceled” some flights ahead of the storm, conditions were bad enough that they couldn’t keep up with even the modified schedule, especially at the key airports of Denver and Chicago, their two biggest hubs through which 25 percent of their crew membersContinue Reading