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In sight. >> doesn't seem to be they're been doing so far and the department of trepgs iof transp issued a statement, southwest will be held accountable if it fails. southwest said fully staffed the and prepared for the holiday weekend when the severe weather swept across the continent saying forced daily changes of unprecedent changes to our flight schedule and the teams used to recover the airline remain at capacity. i'm not sure exactly what that means. the company acknowledged the current situation is "unacceptable" and "we recognize falling short and sincerely apologize." members of the s...

So they are certainly having issues, but the lion's share, the bulk of them are repeated cancelations from southwest, and so much so considering the fact they canceled 70% of their scheduled flights yesterday, and southwest said last night they are only operating at one-third of their normal flight schedule, and they acknowledge it's unacceptable and apologize to their customers, and they say weather is to blame, and they did everything they could to put personnel in place, but they cannot control the weather the department of transportation is weighing in now saying they are concerned about t...

Is probably out through the end of the year. we've already seen them cut about two-thirds of their flight schedule. they're doing that for friday. what new year's will bring is really anyone's guess right now. mother nature looks to be quite favorable across the country, but that's not to say that southwest will take days if not weeks to really fully recover back to normal. so if you are on vacation at the moment, and planning to fly southwest, again, start looking into that. >> yeah. heed that warning. zach grif, thanks so much for your expertise. appreciate it this morning. >> thank you. l...

Schedules and staffing after the cancellations. what are you seeing today? >> reporter: we're certainly seeing a lot of people in line, a lot of people frustrated and trying to figure out when they can get to their destination i think that the numbers really tell the story you talk about the fact that we have seen cancellations across the board, but it's really important to point out that the line share are from southwest. yesterday more than 70% of all cancellations came from southwest. today alone southwest has slashed their flight schedule down to just one-third of the amount of the flights...

The airlines. they're nowhere to be found. i actually got hung up on multiple times. >> the problem is that southwest, they don't give any answer. they don't answer the phone. >> reporter: and southwest has issued a statement saying that the storm, quote, forced daily changes to our flight schedule at a volume and magnitude that still has the tools our teams used to recover the airline operating at capacity. they have apologized for these delays, but this is cold comfort for passengers who probably were delayed from their initial travel, getting home to family, and now have to deal with this a...