Flight cancellations for Southwest Airlines likely to continue next several days

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Flight cancellations for Southwest Airlines likely to continue next several days
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Large-scale cancellations will continue for a fourth day as Southwest Airlines digs itself out of the massive hole it created.

Large-scale cancellations will continue for a fourth day on Thursday as Southwest Airlines digs itself out of the massive hole it created.

Reichstein, who was born and raised in Texas but recently moved to Florida, is marrying her fiancé in Houston. They chose December for seasonal reasons. Southwest Airlines, on its website, tells customers affected by cancelled or delayed flights between December 24 and January 2 to submit receipts and it will honor "reasonable requests for reimbursement for meals, hotel and alternate transportation."Southwest Flight Cancelations: What you may not know about rebooking flights, lost luggageLike many airports across the country, an overwhelming buildup of luggage at Dallas Love Field Airport is visible.

"What we saw happen this weekend was we didn’t have that in place a lot of locations didn’t do that. They should have," said Randy Barnes, president of TWU Local 555 representing ground workers at Southwest Airlines."If that happens, the aircraft can’t go anywhere. If the aircraft can’t go anywhere, the operations shuts down there," he said.

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