Cancelled flights ground festive season in United States
Thousands of travellers were stranded at US airports on Monday as a wave of cancelled flights — many of them operated by Southwest Airlines — spoiled holiday plans and kept families from returning home during one of the busiest and most stressful travel stretches of the year.
The cancellations and delays one day after Christmas left people sleeping on airport floors, standing in customer service lines and waiting on tarmacs for hours on end.
The problems are likely to continue into Tuesday and later this week. As of Monday night, about 2,600 US flights scheduled for Tuesday were already cancelled, including 60 per cent of all Southwest flights.
