{"id":1298,"date":"2025-12-07T05:58:29","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T05:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=1298"},"modified":"2025-12-07T05:58:29","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T05:58:29","slug":"us-waives-11m-fine-for-southwest-airlines-over-2022-holiday-meltdown-trump-administration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=1298","title":{"rendered":"US waives $11m fine for Southwest Airlines over 2022 holiday meltdown | Trump administration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The Trump administration said on Saturday it will waive an $11m fine imposed on Southwest Airlines as part of a $140m settlement over the carrier\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/30\/southwest-airlines-ceo-bob-jordan-apologize\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">meltdown<\/a> in December 2022 during a busy holiday travel period.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Southwest in December 2023 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2023\/dec\/18\/southwest-airlines-penalty-holiday-meltdown\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">agreed<\/a> to pay a $35m cash fine over three years over the airline\u2019s handling of the meltdown that stranded more than 2 million passengers. It also agreed to provide $90m in travel vouchers of $75 or more to passengers delayed at least three hours getting to final destinations because of an airline-caused issue or cancellation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Southwest decided to invest more than $1bn in its operations to improve performance and reliability since the 2022 meltdown. And the US transportation department in a written order cited that decision by the airline in explaining why it was waiving off the remaining $11m of the fine that was due by the end of January.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>#waives #11m #fine #Southwest #Airlines #holiday #meltdown #Trump #administration<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Trump administration said &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1299,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1298"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}