The US airports They returned this Friday to normality on new year’s eve and registered less than a hundred cancellations, the majority of the airline Southwest, after a week of chaos from Storm Elliot.
According to the FlightAware portal count, a total of 98 flights scheduled for today to or from the United States have been canceledcompared to the more than 2,500 canceled on Thursday.
Of these, 41 belong to the low-cost airline Southwest, protagonist of an avalanche of cancellations on New Year’s Eve, which is being investigated by the US government. The company, which attributes the air chaos to the impact of the winter storm during Christmas, canceled more than 2,300 flights yesterday. This Friday, however, he assured that it operates “normally” despite the cancellations.
“We appreciate the dedicated work of the Southwest team to restore our schedules and anticipate minimal disruption for the weekend,” the company said. Southwest insisted that its customers can fill out a form on its website to be reimbursed for the prices of flights, food and hotels derived from the cancellations that millions of people have suffered in recent days.
US Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg lashed out Thursday at the Southwest “Unacceptable Behavior” and sent a letter to the CEO of this company based in Dallas (Texas), in which he assures that he will use “to the fullest his investigative powers” to hold Southwest responsible if he does not fulfill the promises made to reimburse passengers.
While other airlines experienced storm cancellations and recovered “relatively quickly”the letter adds, Southwest did not.
The company attributes its collapse to hundreds of pilots and flight attendants being knocked out by winter storm Elliot, which impacted the country last week with freezing temperatures, heavy snowfall and hurricane-force winds.
In total, it left more than 50 dead from the cold and accidents, in addition to 1.7 million homes without electricity and thousands of passengers on the ground who wanted to be reunited with their families on Christmas Eve and Christmas.
Buffalo, in Eire County, in northwestern New York state, was the area hardest hit by the storm. The president of the United States, Joe Biden, decreed a state of emergency there and local authorities estimate the number of deaths at 37. (YO)
Source: Eluniverso
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