Southwest Airlines cancels more flights, denies COVID jab sickout
Al Jazeera
Southwest Airlines and its pilots’ union denied reports on Monday that a sickout protest over mandatory COVID-19 vaccines led it to cancel flights.
Southwest Airlines cancelled several hundred more flights on Monday following a weekend of major disruptions that it blamed on bad weather and air traffic control issues. Both the company and its pilots’ union denied reports of a sickout to protest mandatory COVID-19 vaccinations.
Southwest cancelled more than 360 flights — 10 percent of its schedule for the day — on Monday, and more than 800 others were delayed, according to the FlightAware tracking service.
Shares of Southwest Airlines Co briefly fell more than 4 percent in early trading on Wall Street before clawing back some of those losses.
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