Southwest suffers technology trouble for 2d immediately day

DALLAS, Texas — Southwest airways stated it was operating Tuesday to repair regular operations after a technology-related problem interfered with flights for the second immediately day.

With the aid of midafternoon, the nation’s fourth-biggest airline had canceled about 500 flights and not on time nearly 1,300 others, in step with tracking carrier FlightAware. The combination of cancellations and delays affected approximately half of of Southwest’s planned flights for the day.

Spokesman for Dallas-based totally Southwest said a problem with connectivity of the airline's era systems started around midday Tuesday.

“Southwest is in the system of resuming normal operations after a short pause in our flight activity as a result of intermittent performance issues with our network connectivity Tuesday afternoon,” the spokesman, Dan Landson, said in an email.

He said crews have been running to restrict flight disruptions and entreated clients to test their flight status Southwest’s website or are trying to find help from the airline’s airport dealers.

On Monday night, Southwest in brief grounded flights across the country after problems with its 1/3-birthday party climate records company.