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In a statement on
its website, Southwest said intermittent technical issues "are
impacting website performance in creating new bookings and
requiring us to process some customers manually as they arrive
for travel."
The airline, which flies in the United States, Mexico and the
Caribbean, said it was asking customers to arrive at least two
hours before their scheduled departures and use airport kiosks
to print boarding passes and tags for baggage.
Southwest said that as of 3:30 ET, 450 of the approximately
3,600 flights scheduled were delayed. It did not specify the
airports.
Southwest shares have risen for four consecutive months for a
gain of more than 20 percent, but are still down 5.6 percent for
the year. The yearly decline is an underperformance compared to
the 2.1 percent decline in the S&P 500 over the same time frame.
(Reporting by Chuck Mikolajczak in New York; editing by Grant
McCool)
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