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Southwest Airlines slapped with $140M penalty over 2022 holiday meltdown

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Southwest Airlines slapped with $140M penalty over 2022 holiday meltdown

Image credit: AP. Article by Shannon Thaler, New York Post. Pop Culturely – December 18, 2023. Article first published in the New York Post. With Reuters.

Southwest Airlines was slapped with a $140 million civil penalty after its 2022 holiday travel meltdown cancelled nearly 17,000 flights and stranded over 2 million passengers, the Department of Transportation announced. The fine — which the agency said is 30 times larger than any penalty the agency has previously […]