talking 17,000 flights were canceled during that period, john so this may not be near as big as that meltdown, although still very significant. for an airline that really took it on the chin reputation wise when it had that meltdown at the end of last year. so let me get this right. we still don t know why the ground stop was issued or what? exactly the technical reasons were that southwest was backed up today. apparently they feel they ve got that situation fixed. but now there s a backup in the reason there are concerns about this, particularly with southwest is what we saw in december when you had so many people just stranded. the issue with the holiday meltdown was there was big time weather across many parts of the country and southwest had planes and crews out of position in mass. in fact, at some point southwest was flying planes were completely empty, trying to get them back into position, and that just simply seem to fail over and over again. in this case, we are not sure if i
the day coast to coast we see in these incidents that one something like this happened. there was a big domino effect so we will see how quickly this does truly resolve itself for southwest airlines and at airports across the country. what s interesting here john is that we have just heard there is a departure delay for flights going into dallas love field, which is one of southwest airlines biggest hubs, because simply because of these delayed flights, they do not have enough gate space. we first found out about this from a tweet from southwest airlines, laying its message to a customer that was complaining about these delays. it said. there were intermittent technology issues the faa put out this ground stop. around 10 30 this morning on the east coast to do equipment issues, according to the faa. still not totally cl these equipment issues actually wore and how similar this is to the holiday meltdown that southwest airlines experience stranding tens of thousands of customers nationw
miles per hour in some places tonight. today, a top southwest airlines executive told congress the company messed up during its holiday meltdown that left almost 17,000 flights canceled and said they re working to make things right. here s garrett haake. reporter: southwest airlines in the congressional hotseat today, facing questions about the christmas week meltdown that caused coast-to-coast travel mayhem. let me be clear, we messed up. reporter: that disruption, ten days of cascading cancellations. nearly 17,000 flights affecting more than 2 million passengers. they canceled the flight after being here for six hours. i spent the night at the airport. they offered nothing. i want to sincerely and humbly apologize. reporter: the southwest chief operating officer asked to explain how other airlines weathered the winter storm, which brought southwest to its knees. all airlines experienced the weather but it was a
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stroke. his doctors said he would be able to go back and do full work. we never heard from the surgeons that put that defibrillator in, right? so there are still questions? absolutely. this was not a full medical record release by any means. they talked about his overall condition but not specifics about the medications or any other thing that he may have had done. okay. stick around. we have a lot more to talk to you about in just a minute. and this morning, law makers are set to hear from pilots for southwest airlines after the unprecedented holiday meltdown that left nearly 17,000 flights canceled and two million passengers stranded. pilots are expected to testify that technology failures were predictable and avoidable and to