Southwest Airlines scrubs 160 flights after resuming 'normal' schedule

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Carrier said flights are back on track after travel woes, but concedes it is 'inundated' with lost luggage.

Southwest as of Monday afternoon had canceled 160, or 3%, of its flights, the most of any American airline, according to tracking site

. Another 422, or 10% of its scheduled flights were delayed. The majority of disrupted flights were scheduled to fly in or out of Denver International Airport., disrupting passengers' holiday travel plans. Although the airline blamed winter weather for the flight disruptions, U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg insisted"the thousands of cancellations by Southwest in recent days have not been because of the weather.

"Other airlines that experienced weather-related cancellations and delays due to the winter storm recovered relatively quickly, unlike Southwest," he wrote in a

 

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