SoCal Passengers Stranded as Southwest Airlines Woes Worsen

Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 MAX aircraft are parked on the tarmac after being grounded, at the Southern California Logistics Airport in Victorville, Calif., on March 28, 2019. Mark Ralston/AFP via Getty Images

LOS ANGELES—Thousands of Southwest Airlines passengers remained stranded Dec. 27 across Southern California as the airline’s winter woes worsened, leading to canceled and delayed flights throughout the nation.

As of 9:30 a.m. Dec. 26, the airline had canceled 2,700 flights nationally, including many from Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) and other airfields across Southern California, according to the tracking website FlightAware. At LAX, a total of 62 flights from all airlines had been canceled as of Monday morning, with 148 others delayed.