Southwest Airlines Problems 2024 Flights. Southwest airlines said on thursday after posting a first quarter loss that it will stop operating at four airports and reduce flights at others to cut costs. United and southwest will slow their hiring of pilots.
Southwest airlines needed a break and it got one on friday, a day when the crowdstrike technology meltdown disrupted schedules at all three of its major competitors. Southwest and alaska air say delays in receiving jets may upend flying plans;