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Make Or Break For American Airlines As It Tries To Reset Operation But Cancellations Are Still Piling Up
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Southwest Airlines Will NOT Pay Final $11 Million of Record Fine for 2022 Christmas Chaos
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IT Problems Plague German Flag Carrier Lufthansa Ahead of ‘Mega Strike’ on Monday, Leading to Delays and Cancellations
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Thousands of Lufthansa Passengers Stranded Worldwide After Construction Workers Bring Down Airline’s IT Systems When They Dig Through Fibre Optic Cables
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Southwest Airlines Pilots March Out of Employee Rally in Front of CEO Bob Jordan Ahead of Senate Committee Hearing
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Spanish Flag Carrier Iberia Suffers Major IT Outage Crashing Check-In And Boarding Systems
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US Investigates Southwest Airlines For Possible ‘Unfair and Deceptive’ Flight Scheduling During Holiday Meltdown
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Southwest Airlines Faces Class Action Lawsuit For Failing to Warn Shareholders About its Antiquated Computer Systems
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Southwest Airlines To Splash $25 Million On Gift Cards For Employees as Apology For ‘Physical and Emotional Toll’ of Operational Meltdown
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Southwest Says ‘Big Herculean’ Task to Get Crew and Planes in Position is On Track For Friday
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Southwest Airlines Blames Operational Meltdown On Antiquated Computer Systems And ‘Tedious’ Manual Processes
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Southwest Denies Rumors it Plans to ‘Park the Fleet’ in Major Passenger Shutdown Starting Tuesday
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Southwest Airlines Flight Attendants Say They’re Waiting More Than 10 Hours On Hold to Get Through to Scheduling
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British Airways Suffers Operational Meltdown After IT Outage Disrupts Vital Flight Planning System
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Aer Lingus Passengers Face More IT Woes as Online Check-In Systems Break Down
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Air New Zealand Forced to Leave Dozens of Bags Behind On Flagship Inaugural Flight From New York JFK to Auckland
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Dutch Airline KLM Slams the Operator of Amsterdam Schiphol Airport Over New Passenger Capacity Curbs
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Aer Lingus Grounds All European Flights From Dublin On Saturday Afternoon After ‘Major’ IT Outage
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British Airways Won’t Sell Anymore Short-Haul Flights From Heathrow Until 8 August
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Heathrow Blames Penny Pinching Airlines Who Refuse to Increase Employee Wages for Recent Airport Chaos
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Flights Diverted After One of Heathrow Airport’s Two Runways Suffers “Surface Failure”
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Emirates Refuses Heathrow’s Demands to Cut Passenger Numbers and Launches Stinging Attack On Airport
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Delta Air Forced to Fill a Widebody Jet With 1,000 Lost Bags From Heathrow Airport to Repatriate Them Back to the U.S.
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The Staffing Shortage at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport is So Bad One Airline is Flying Baggage Handlers in From Iceland
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Heathrow Imposes Artificial Capacity Cap On Airlines Because as Airport Buckles Under Pressure of Passenger Demand
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British Airways is Sending Out Flights Without Food Because of Security Staff Shortages at its Heathrow Hub
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Heathrow Urges Passengers To Put Liquids in Hold Luggage to Speed Up Security Checks
Lufthansa Flight Attendants Could Be About to Announce More Strike Dates as Peace Talks Falter
Flight Attendants at Lufthansa Say Their Mental Health is Facing “Extreme Difficulties” And They Are Blaming The Airline
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Dutch Airline KLM Cancelling up to 2,040 Flights Because of ‘Relentless’ Pressure at its Amsterdam Hub
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Cancelled Flights and Missing Baggage? Not Us, Says Emirates in Promise to Deliver Entire Summer Schedule
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Video: Look at ‘Record Breaking’ Line of People at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport That Stretched Along The Entire Outside Forecourt
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Heathrow Confirms it Will Open Final Passenger Terminal On June 14 After Two-Year Pandemic Closure
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Global IT Outage Forces British Airways to Cancel Nearly 100 Flights With Passengers Stranded On Planes
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British Airways Forced to Trim Schedule to Dodge Yet Another Operational Meltdown
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British Airways Hit By Yet Another Operational Meltdown With Passengers Told to Abandon Their Luggage
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British Airways Staff Were Spat At and Had to Take Their Uniforms Off to Escape Angry Passengers After IT Crash Grounded Flights
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British Airways Cancels ALL Short-Haul Flights And Asks Heathrow to Block Passengers From Entering Airport
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British Airways Suffers Operational Meltdown After Second IT Crash in a Week Causes Chaos