it will take a little bit. what airlines have to do is halt everything to try to get faults and planes and crews in their proper spot and there is issue like this when they get stuck out at different out stations rather than a main hub as the places are planes aren t supposed to be takes a little time for things to get back to normal and so sometimes the best thing in air all you can do is stop things all together. this is huge. we re talking tens of thousands if not more than 100,000 people impacted if you consider 100 or more people on each airplane and 1100 flights cancelled today this say huge chunk of southwest s schedule. more than a quarter of flights today. this is nothing to take a stick at. this is a huge operational meltdown for the airline and just trying to get it back to normal. it s also important to note, not only customers but also are the crews because they have been in some cases as we ve seen from company memos that i ve obtained
i think the fact we reported so hard on settlements helped us. we were able to find the legal and financial trail that became almost like the ladder we were climbing in the story. normally what settlements do is that they hush people up, right? they involve using money to make things go away. but we found that there was that legal and financial record that said, hey, something happened here, it s not a conviction in a court of law but a lot of money was paid to a lot of women over these years and there s some sort of trail. so even though in these stories we of course always want brave women who will go on the record, we also want a lot of other forms of proof. we want the internal company memos you just described, we want as many settlement accounts as we can get, and we want the women speaking personally about what they experienced. because in a way our story was not only about the harassment allegation, it was about the coverup of those allegations again and again.