Passengers queue up astatine the ticketing antagonistic for Southwest Airlines flights successful Eppley Airfield Sunday, Oct. 10, 2021, successful Omaha, Neb. Southwest Airlines canceled hundreds of flights implicit the weekend, blaming the woes connected aerial postulation power issues and weather. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

Passengers queue up astatine the ticketing antagonistic for Southwest Airlines flights successful Eppley Airfield Sunday, Oct. 10, 2021, successful Omaha, Neb. Southwest Airlines canceled hundreds of flights implicit the weekend, blaming the woes connected aerial postulation power issues and weather. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski) (Copyright 2021 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

Southwest Airlines canceled hundreds much flights Monday pursuing a play of large work disruptions.

According to Flightaware, the bearer has cancelled 348 flights Monday and delayed different 271 flights.

The Dallas-based hose had blamed aerial postulation power issues and upwind for its play “operational challenges” that saw implicit 1,000 cancelled flights connected Sunday alone. Southwest Airlines was the lone hose to study the issues connected that scale.

Southwest has struggled each summer with precocious numbers of delayed and canceled flights. In August it announced it was trimming its September docket by 27 flights a day, oregon little than 1%, and 162 flights a day, oregon 4.5% of the schedule, from aboriginal October done Nov. 5.

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Last week, Southwest became the latest hose to denote it was imposing a vaccine mandate connected its staff. The Dallas-based institution said its workers indispensable beryllium afloat vaccinated by Dec. 8 successful bid to stay astatine the airline. Employees tin question support to skip the shots owed to aesculapian oregon spiritual reasons.

One expert said a imaginable crushed for the play outages whitethorn beryllium a enactment slowdown by pilots who reason the mandate. The pilots national denied it was portion of a occupation action.

In premarket trading, shares of Southwest Air slipped 2.6%.

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