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Southwest investors are seeking damages for what they say is the carrier's negligence.

Despite cancelling thousands of flights over the holidays, the Dallas-based airline Southwest gave promotions to five executives to higher responsibilities.

Departures across the U.S. were halted for two hours Wednesday morning after the agency's system for alerting pilots and airports of real-time hazards went dark, frustrating thousands of travelers.

The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating an incident with the Embraer 170 aircraft which killed an American Airlines worker on Saturday in Montgomery, Ala.

The airline canceled thousands of flights during the holidays and left hundreds of thousands of people across the country looking for new travel plans. Critics say that’s because it failed to fund technology needed to match its growth, dating back to Southwest co-founder Herb Kelleher.

Passengers who looked for last-minute tickets encountered sky-high prices — in some cases, triple or quadruple the rate for the same route in the last few months. Experts say it's fairly normal.

More than 100 U.S. flights were canceled, according to tracker FlightAware. The cancellations and delays come during a period of chaotic travel said to resemble pre-pandemic levels.

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg announced action against six airlines, but only one is a U.S. carrier; the others are foreign. "It's too little and too late," one consumer advocate says.

The jets are set to be ready for passengers before 2030 and will half the time it currently takes to cross the Atlantic.

Rose Reyes was stranded for five days in Gander Newfoundland in the aftermath of 9/11.