Southwest. These flights mostly back up and running
this afternoon after a technical problem this morning led
to thousands of flight delays across the country.
Nearly 1900 flights is still delayed and the airline
briefly pausing departures as it sorted out the issue.
Southwest share is down about 8/10 of a percent
Southwest.
In a statement to chatter news blaming the
outage on data connection issues with the vendor
resulting from a firewall failure.
Southwest is asking customers to check its website for updated
flight information and you might remember Southwest saw tens of
thousands
of flight cancellations in the heart of the winter holiday
season this past year affecting about two million passengers.
It was just between Christmas Day and New Year's Day,
luggage passengers all stranded. It was just a mess.