AUSTIN, Texas - Southwest Airlines says they will be canceling approximately 1,000 daily flights from Sunday, March 22 until April 14.
They will also be suspending service to all their international destinations. In a release, the airline says they recently implemented a plan to reduce capacity by at least 20 percent from April 14 through June 5.
The decision, according to Southwest, was driven by the drop in travel demand in the wake of the COVID-19 outbreak. "On Friday, Southwest made the tough decision to further revise our schedule by canceling approximately 1,000 of our almost 4,000 daily flights from Sunday, March 22 until the previously revised schedule begins on April 14, 2020," the airline said in the release. "We sincerely regret