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Photos: Southwest Airlines meltdown worsens; California airports hit hard with mass cancellations
1000’s of Southwest Airways vacationers remained stranded at airports throughout the nation Tuesday morning because the fallout from a strong winter storm that pounded a lot of the nation continued to floor a whole bunch of flights and disrupt passengers’ vacation journey plans.
Airways canceled greater than 2,800 flights Tuesday morning, the vast majority of them — 2,526 flights — with Southwest Airways, in response to the flight monitoring web site FlightAware.
In California, a whole bunch of flights have been delayed or canceled by means of the top of the week — making up a lot of the Southwest schedule. Passengers sat curbside at Los Angeles Worldwide Airport, and dozens of fliers lined up on the rental automotive counter at Hollywood Burbank Airport, with practically 100 extra ready inside and outdoors the power.
As of 9:30 a.m. Tuesday, no less than 60 flights originating at Los Angeles Worldwide Airport had been canceled, and no less than 55 had been delayed.
Luis Hernandez, left, and Ruth Hernandez wait at LAX with their canine, Sissi, for a experience house to Torrance after their Southwest Airways flight to Omaha was canceled on Tuesday.
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Zoe Schelter, 12, helps her mom, Kate Schelter, with a bag contained in the Southwest terminal at LAX on Tuesday. The household’s flight from Oakland was canceled after that they had checked of their baggage, however they had been in a position to reclaim their baggage after driving right down to L.A. themselves.
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Kate Schelter waits for ticket refunds at LAX on Tuesday after Southwest canceled her household’s flight from Oakland the day earlier than.
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Zoe Schelter, 12, and Milo Schelter, 9, wait with their baggage at LAX on Tuesday as their mom tries to get refunds for his or her canceled Southwest Airways flight.
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Stranded passengers at LAX think about flights on different airways Tuesday after Southwest canceled theirs.
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MacKenzie Porter tries to seek out her baggage contained in the Southwest terminal at LAX on Tuesday after her flight was canceled.
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A Southwest Airways worker, proper, helps Cameron Caldwell find her baggage at LAX on Tuesday.
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