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Airline ticket prices may stay high as carriers bank fuel relief from Iran deal

A U.S.-Iran peace deal has lowered oil prices, promising billions in fuel savings for airlines. However, passengers may not see immediate fare reductions due to limited flight capacity. Airlines are using these savings to improve their financial health rather than immediately lowering ticket prices, with fare increases still lagging behind…

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This year’s Thanksgiving travel will be the busiest ever. The TSA claims it’s ready

Airport security officials are pleading with passengers to arrive early

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How worried should we be about PFAS, the 'forever chemicals'?

Recent studies suggest PFAS can pass through human skin and through the placenta. What does that mean for our health?

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Sepa board member revealed to also be on oil and gas giant board

Sepa board member Nicola Gordon has been revealed to also be on the board of oil and gas giant Okea ASA

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Southwest Airlines Says It's Ready for Winter After 2022's Troubles

Southwest Airlines is discussing its preparedness for winter travel after a meltdown in 2022.

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Biden wants airlines to pay passengers whose flights are hit by preventable delays

No airline currently offers cash compensation in addition to refunds or amenities. The White House plans to change that. The move comes after a chaotic holiday travel season.

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Southwest Airlines details plan to prevent another winter meltdown

Three months after a travel meltdown plagued Dallas-based Southwest Airlines, the carrier is rolling out what it hopes to be its redemption: a three-part plan to boost operations.

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Here’s what advocates are pushing airlines to do after Southwest’s meltdown

Southwest Airlines’ December meltdown opened the door for lawmakers and consumer advocates to push for more regulation and passenger protections. But at what cost?

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Where’s Bob? Southwest Airlines CEO’s absence becomes a talking point in Senate hearing

Southwest Airlines CEO Bob Jordan was conspicuous by his absence from Thursday’s U.S. Senate committee hearing into the carrier’s December holiday meltdown.

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Southwest Airlines sends reimbursements to more than 270,000 passengers

Southwest Airlines has reimbursed more than 273,406 passengers since its December meltdown that left millions of passengers stranded, more than 96% of all requests submitted so far.

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Southwest Airlines says a fix is coming as Senators skewer carrier for December meltdown

Southwest Airlines chief operating officer Andrew Watterson said an upgrade to its crew scheduling software will be ready to go Friday after two rounds of testing, which should help fix some of the problems that led to a cascade of cancellations over the winter holidays.

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Senate panel probes holiday meltdown at Southwest Airlines

Congress is hearing today about the December meltdown at Southwest Airlines

The Independent UK

Southwest Airlines exec to tell Senate: "We messed up" in holiday meltdown

The airline's problems set off an intense round of scrutiny from both fliers and the federal government.

Axios

Hearing will reveal what caused Southwest's Christmas flights chaos

Southwest's pilots' union will say bosses at the airline ignored warning signs before being forced to cancel droves of flights in the run-up to Christmas.

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Southwest's COO will tell senators 'we messed up' over the holiday travel meltdown

NPR obtained Chief Operating Officer Andrew Watterson's prepared testimony for his scheduled appearance before a Senate committee to discuss what led to thousands of flights being canceled.

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Southwest to describe overwhelmed scheduling system in Senate hearing

Southwest Airlines Co.’s operations chief plans to tell U.S. senators that the carrier’s scheduling systems became overwhelmed during a late-December storm, leading to a breakdown that forced thousands of flight cancellations and cost the company more than $1 billion.

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Senate calls on Southwest Airlines operations chief to answer for holiday meltdown

Southwest Airlines chief operating officer Andrew Watterson is slated to testify at a U.S. Senate Committee hearing next week amid calls for the carrier to answer for December’s holiday meltdown when it canceled 16,700 flights.

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Southwest Airlines leaders defend tech, schedules and staffing after holiday meltdown

Southwest Airlines’ top executives say the company’s technology, staffing and scheduling plans didn’t fail in late December, even after a holiday meltdown in which 16,700 flights were canceled and the carrier forced the shutdown of two-thirds of its operations.

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Southwest crisis reveals clubby world of airline leaders

The operational chaos that engulfed Southwest Airlines Co. over the busy holiday period was a crisis decades in the making.

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As Southwest Airlines recovers from one meltdown, how does it prevent another?

Reeling from one of the worst months in company history, Southwest Airlines leaders are trying to figure out what options there are, if any, to prevent another cancellation meltdown.

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Holiday meltdown exposes Southwest Airlines’ technology woes

Passengers across the country waited in airports this week while Southwest Airlines’ operation crumbled, because it couldn’t get pilots and flight attendants assigned to flights.

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Southwest Airlines hopes to restore its full flight schedule by Friday

DALLAS — After taking desperate measures to try to stabilize its broken flight operations, Southwest Airlines could have its full schedule restored by Friday in time for another busy holiday travel weekend, company leaders told employees late Wednesday.

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Southwest Airlines slashes thousands of flights in days ahead to ‘reset’ after meltdown

Passengers are still stranded, and Southwest Airlines is still scrambling.

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Southwest Air memos showed growing alarm on eve of epic winter storm

As a winter storm bore down on a broad swath of the U.S., a staffing crisis was brewing for Southwest Airlines Co. in Denver.

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US government to review ‘unacceptable’ cancellations by Southwest Airlines as travel chaos continues

Thousands of flights have been cancelled amid frigid weather across United States

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