80% of flights have been canceled for Southwest Airlines from Wichita’s Dwight D. Eisenhower Airport on Tuesday.
According to the airport, four of the five Southwest flights scheduled to depart Wichita were canceled, including two headed for Denver, one to St. Louis, and one to Phoenix.
The only Southwest flight scheduled to depart Wichita is the flight to St Louis at 6:10 p.m.
Four of the five arrivals in to Wichita from Southwest Airlines were also canceled, including two flights coming in from St. Louis, and two from Denver.
The only Southwest flight scheduled to arrive in Wichita is from Phoenix at 5:40 p.m.
The U.S. Department of Transportation said it will look into flight cancellations by Southwest Airlines that have left travelers stranded at airports across the nation amid an intense winter storm that has killed dozens of people.
About 4,000 domestic U.S. flights were canceled Monday, according to the tracking website FlightAware, and more than 72% of those cancellations were by Southwest Airlines.
Southwest is blaming staffing problems and shortages; Southwest spokesman Jay McVay said at a press conference in Houston that cancellations snowballed as storm systems moved across the country, leaving flight crews and planes out of place.