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the world, i am allison caustic . ahead on cnn newsroom, relief still days away for many southwest customers as we enter day eight of the airline meltdown. i talked to an aviation expert about the federal ramifications there plus we have a live report on a deadly fire at a casino in cambodia. that has left seven people that. pope francis says pope benedict is very sick and asks for everyone s prayers, the latest from the vatican. we begin with what ukrainian officials are calling a massive missile attack on cities across the country. ukrainian air force says russia is attacking from various directions with air and sea- based cruise missiles. joins us from kia, what is the latest and what are you hearing? well, what we are hearing from ukrainian officials is that at least 120 missiles have been fired so far today from russia to ukraine, hitting basically every major metropolitan area in the country, including, of course kia, where we are just a few minutes ago, a d ....
to retire by the age of 65. not 67 as some lawmakers were proposing. mayor pete said you can still be president of the united states, but you re definitely not allowed to fly planes. he never explained how that would improve the reliability of travel ahead of the holiday rush but insisted it would help. six months later, this is the state of air travel in the united states. in chicago, and around the country, mountains of luggage with no travelers to claim them. i m going to cry. i m tired. frustrated, tired. pissed off. this woman and her mom and grandmother spent this little one s first christmas stuck in the dallas airport. it was hard. it was hard seeing the families with other newborns around children sleeping on the floor. the family from new mexico says southwest rebooked and cancelled their flights five times. kimberly day is pregnant and travelling with two children. they ve been trying to get from phoenix to new york to visit a sick relative. tue ....
The airline has canceled more than 2300 flights for today, but the number only drops to only 39 cancellations by friday. airports are field with on my that southwest passengers trying to rebook, as piles of luggage continue to grow, while other airlines were covered from last week s winter storm fairly quickly, southwest has not. tuesday southwest accounted for 84% of cancellations among all airlines in the u.s. on wednesday, that number dropped to 91%, and for today, it is at 99%. cnn transportation analyst mary scioto joins me now from charleston, south carolina. she is a former inspector general for the u.s. department of transportation. you for being here. thank you, good to be with you . so, these cancellations continue to snowball at southwest airlines, and this mess, incredibly, still has ....
Cancelled their flights five times. kimberly day is pregnant and travelling with two children. they ve been trying to get from phoenix to new york to visit a sick relative. tuesday southwest told them it cannot rebook their flight until saturday. kaylynn s flight was cancelled monday. the earliest flight was thursday southwest offered her. when you try to rebook on the southwest app, nothing is available until january 1 and they expect you to pay the difference in fare. john: it s a nightmare. there s one person happy about this? that s sam britton. the truth is, everything about this crisis was foreseeable. in august, 38 state attorneys general wrote to congress to report that pete buttigieg was ignoring consumer complaints in the airline industry. unfortunately the agency has thus far failed to respond the attorney general s wrote. ....
The mass flight cancellations by Southwest Airlines are a "service meltdown" worse than any other "in recent memory" according to airline travel specialists. ....