![]() ![]() ![]() Once they do that, they'll be awarded a limited-time Companion Pass, which they'll be able to designate to their favorite travel buddy. To snag the deal, members must register for the promotion and purchase a Southwest flight (either one roundtrip or two one-ways) before 11:50 pm CDT on April 5 for travel happening before May 24. Through Wednesday, April 5, Southwest Airlines is awarding a promotional Companion Pass to Rapid Rewards members who follow a few simple instructions. CNN Sans ™ & © 2016 Cable News Network.Southwest really wants to make sure you're not spending your vacations alone this summer, and for a a very short while, it's allowing eligible travelers to bring a friend on their flights for free. Market holidays and trading hours provided by Copp Clark Limited. All content of the Dow Jones branded indices Copyright S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC and/or its affiliates. Standard & Poor’s and S&P are registered trademarks of Standard & Poor’s Financial Services LLC and Dow Jones is a registered trademark of Dow Jones Trademark Holdings LLC. Dow Jones: The Dow Jones branded indices are proprietary to and are calculated, distributed and marketed by DJI Opco, a subsidiary of S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC and have been licensed for use to S&P Opco, LLC and CNN. Chicago Mercantile: Certain market data is the property of Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. US market indices are shown in real time, except for the S&P 500 which is refreshed every two minutes. Your CNN account Log in to your CNN account The meltdown cost the airline about $800 million. In January, Southwest reported a loss for the fourth quarter because of the fiasco and warned the costs from those problems will result in another loss in the first quarter. The pilots’ union has previously testified that the operation was held together by “duct tape” and that the airlines’ technology failures were predictable and avoidable because the system has failed multiple times “with increasing frequency and magnitude.” The Department of Transportation is also investigating the airline. Southwest’s meltdown has caught the ire of Congress and its pilot union. The Dallas-based airline is investing $1.3 billion on technology projects this year, about 25% more than it spent in 2019, the last full year before the pandemic. (LUV) better prepared to handle truly extreme winter weather events as we move forward.” (LUV) said in the action plan, published Thursday, that it has “taken many weeks of work to sort through the complexity of contributing factors” and the “root causes and lessons learned are guiding our efforts to make Southwest Crewmembers were left stranded because they were unable to communicate with their dispatchers and schedulers, and the airlines’ legacy technology could not keep up with the rate of changes. Although many airlines were able recover relatively quickly, Southwest Airlines didn’t return to normal operations for several days. Late last year, a winter storm barreled through the United States and disrupted thousands of flights. Southwest explains its meltdown to Congress ![]() Southwest Airlines planes parked at Gates D4 and D6 in Terminal 4 of the Sky Harbor International Airport, Friday, Dec. ![]()
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