Holiday Travel

There will be no strike by American Airlines flight attendants around the Christmas and New Year's holidays. Federal mediators have rejected a request by the attendants' union to begin a 30-day countdown toward a strike.

Both DFW and Love Field airports say they'll see increasingly more passengers than previous years.

A major blizzard set off a series of issues last year that forced the airline to cancel more than 16,000 flights, stranding passengers across the U.S. Southwest says this year will be different.

A record number of Texans are expected to travel this Fourth of July weekend, according to AAA.The organization predicts nearly 4 million Texans will take trips, breaking records previously set in 2019 before the COVID-19 pandemic.

The advisory follows the kidnapping of four Americans earlier this month in the city of Matamoros. The state's Department of Public Safety said "cartel activity" made trips to Mexico a "serious risk."

The Southwest Airlines Pilots Association said the airline's "lack of discussion or commitment" to fix the issues that led to the December meltdown pushed the union to call for a vote.

Southwest Airlines anticipates a money-losing fourth quarter after a winter storm and technology meltdown led to nearly 17,000 canceled flights and stranded hundreds of thousands of holiday travelers.

Why did Southwest cancel so many flights, and what's next for affected travelers? The airline-in-crisis hasn't answered all the questions, but claims it has returned to normal operations.

The airline canceled thousands of flights during the holidays and left hundreds of thousands of people across the country looking for new travel plans. Critics say that’s because it failed to fund technology needed to match its growth, dating back to Southwest co-founder Herb Kelleher.