We can hope that this is due to a strike due to the vaccine mandate. Southwest is blaming in on ATC and weather, but ATC called them out and said that they're not the problem. So, best case scenario, Southwest still lied to all their customers.
The scary bit is that you can bet going forward that vaccine mandate strikes will be spun and labelled as shutdowns due to too many employees being sick with COVID-19, and they'll use it to push even more fear.
We can hope that this is due to a strike due to the vaccine mandate. Southwest is blaming in on ATC and weather, but ATC called them out and said that they're not the problem. So, best case scenario, Southwest still lied to all their customers.
The scary bit is that you can bet going forward that vaccine mandate strikes will be spun and labelled as shutdowns due to too many employees being sick with COVID-19, and they'll use it to push even more fear.