Passengers boarding a Southwest plane in Burbank, Calif., on Sunday. The carrier was hit by traffic-control complications and bad weather.
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Southwest Airlines Co. LUV -1.67% canceled hundreds of flights Monday as it continued to dig out from a weekend meltdown.
The carrier canceled nearly 350 flights Monday morning, about 9% of the airline’s schedule, according to FlightAware, a flight-tracking site. The cancellations build on the roughly 1,900 flights Southwest canceled Saturday and Sunday.
The problems began Friday when severe weather in Florida and air-traffic-control issues resulted in a large number of cancellations, leaving customers and crew members out of place, an airline spokesperson said Saturday. As the airline tried to reset its network it bumped up against limits on how long crews can work, leading to staffing strains that prolonged the problems.
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