service disruptions

Southwest restored its full schedule Friday after slashing flying plans much of the week in an effort to regain its footing after the cascade of cancellations. It scrapped just a few dozen flights Saturday and Sunday—less than 1% of what it had scheduled each day, according to FlightAware.  Citing in part early-morning fog in Chicago and heavy snowfall in Denver, Southwest canceled roughly 130 flights Monday, or about 3% of what it had planned, according to FlightAware. The airline had scrubbed many of those flights…

Southwest Airlines Co. LUV 0.87% showed more progress Saturday in its push to regain credibility with regulators and travelers, especially those whose holidays were disrupted by the company’s meltdown over the past week. The Dallas-based carrier had just one Saturday flight cancellation as of midday, according to FlightAware. Overall, more than 70 flights among all airlines flying to, from or within the U.S. had been canceled.…

Southwest Airlines Co. LUV 0.87% worked to return to normal operations Friday, more than a week after the start of an unprecedented meltdown that stranded passengers and drew fire from regulators.The Dallas-based carrier’s leap from operating 1,600 flights Thursday to roughly 4,000 on Friday more than doubled the size of its operation overnight. The expanded schedule represented a major test of how well Southwest has managed to put itself back together following a…

Tesla Inc. TSLA 8.08% is poised Friday to close the worst year in the stock’s history, having lost more than $700 billion in market valuation amid investor concerns about production disruptions, demand worries and Chief Executive Elon Musk ‘s focus on Twitter Inc.The electric-vehicle maker’s shares fell roughly 65% from the start of the year through Thursday. A new wave of share sales unfolded in recent weeks after discounts Tesla offered…

Southwest Airlines Co. said it would reimburse customers for many types of reasonable expenses they have taken on after the airline canceled close to 16,000 flights since last Thursday, leaving people stranded across the country.Southwest has canceled another 2,363 flights Thursday thus far, according to data from FlightAware. The company said it would restart regular flights Friday after flying a reduced schedule over the last few days. Some Southwest passengers have spent thousands of dollars getting to their…

Southwest Airlines Co. LUV 3.63% executives said the airline is removing limits on ticket sales, rebuilding crew schedules and shuttling baggage as it gears up to resume its full flying schedule on Friday. Southwest has canceled more than 15,000 flights in the past week, according to FlightAware. By midmorning Thursday, the airline had scrubbed 39 flights scheduled for Friday. Southwest’s top executives told employees that shrinking down had helped. The…

Some Twitter Inc. users experienced technical problems accessing the service through web browsers late Wednesday, in what appeared to be the first widespread outage since the company was taken over by Elon Musk two months ago.  Users who tried to login through their computer browsers on Wednesday were met with an error message. The Twitter Spaces tab, which allows users to join real-time conversations with others, on the mobile app version of the platform…

Some Twitter Inc. users experienced technical problems accessing the service through web browsers late Wednesday, in what appeared to be the first widespread outage since the company was taken over by Elon Musk two months ago.  Users who tried to login through their computer browsers on Wednesday were met with an error message. The Twitter Spaces tab, which allows users to join real-time conversations with others, on the mobile app version of the platform…

Airline executives and labor leaders point to inadequate technology systems, in particular SkySolver, as one reason why a brutal winter storm turned into a debacle. SkySolver was overwhelmed by the scale of the task of sorting out which pilots and flight attendants could work which flights, Southwest executives said. Crew schedulers instead had to comb through records by hand. The airline has said SkySolver works well during a more typical disruption and had helped it manage recent hurricanes and snowstorms.…

Rival airlines have capped fares in some cities in response to an influx of last-minute bookings made after Southwest Airlines Co. LUV -2.61% scrapped thousands of flights during the past week. Southwest canceled more than 2,500 flights, or 62% of its scheduled departures, on Wednesday, according to data from FlightAware. Chief Executive Bob Jordan said Tuesday that the company plans to run a reduced…