>> reporter: -- southwest was mostly back on schedule today, canceling just 89 flights after cutting nearly 2,500 since friday forcing hundreds of thousands of angry passengers to miss their flights. >> it was horrible we had a flight friday morning at 7:00 a.m. that was canceled due to crew issues we were delayed 12 hours getting out of orlando to get to chicago. >> i was kind of scared this morning that our flight was going to be canceled >> reporter: southwest ceo gary kelly >> obviously, i really feel for our customers. >> reporter: again today blamed the trouble on weather-related airport ground stops in florida last friday >> by the end of the day we had significant numbers of airplanes and flight crews that were totally out of position >> reporter: but while other airlines recovered quickly, it took southwest until today to catch up. through the summer many airlines struggled to handle the unexpected surge in passenger traffic >> it seems like southwest was likely, you know, at the max