Southwest

Southwest canceled more than 16,000 flights over the holidays.

The Dallas-based carrier’s cuts amounted to 60% of its schedule and marked another day of disruptions even as weather conditions and operations at other airlines improved.

Following dozens of delayed and canceled flights Tuesday at Logan International Airport in Boston, more disruptions for Southwest Airlines passengers were anticipated Wednesday. The nationwide issues have caused headaches for travelers trying to get home from the holidays. Southwest has canceled over 2,500 of its flights scheduled for Wednesday, which includes 29 cancellations at Logan, according to data from FlightAware…

One man at Boston Logan Airport told NBC10 Boston that Southwest told him there were no flights for three days, meaning he’ll be renting a car and driving back home to Nashville, Tennessee.

A Southwest Airlines flight attendant suffered a compression fracture to a vertebra in her upper back during a hard landing last month in California, according to federal safety investigators.

Destructive U.S. Southwest fires have burned dozens of homes in northern Arizona and put numerous small villages in New Mexico in the path of danger, as wind-fueled flames chewed up wide swaths of tinder dry forest and grassland and plumes of smoke filled the sky