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On May 23, 1988, a leased Boeing 727-100 (TI-LRC) operating the route San Jose-Managua-Miami, collided with a fence at the end of the runway in the Juan Santamaria International Airport, crashed at a nearby field next to a highway, and caught fire. The excess of weight in the front part of the airplane was the cause of the accident.
Lauda Air Flight 004 – On 26 May 1991, Flight 004 was flying over Phu Toei National Park when it broke up in mid-flight over the jungle near Suphan Buri and Ban Nong Rong, killing everyone on board in Thailand's worst aviation disaster. The cause was an uncommanded thrust reverser on engine no. 1.
Southwest Airlines arrived at Phoenix in January 1982 with 13 daily flights to 12 cities; by 1986 it had 64 daily flights from Phoenix and had a crew base there. Southwest opened a maintenance facility at PHX in 1992, which was its largest.
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The number of flight delays has increased as staff has been cut back as a result of the financial woes following the September 11 attacks. [7] Some of the causes of flight delays or cancellation include: Airline glitches. The top cause of flight delays, according to a USA Today analysis. [7] Congestion in air traffic [7]
As of November 2023, Southwest Airlines has scheduled flights to over 100 destinations [1] in 42 states, Puerto Rico, Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean, the newest being Syracuse, New York on November 14, 2021. However, service to the city ended in 2024. The airline has 15 focus cities and operates over 4,000 flights each day. [2]
That same day, Southwest canceled over 200 flights at Dallas Love Field, while Dallas Fort Worth International Airport—which is located a short distance away, handles many more flights, and is not used by Southwest—saw 31 cancellations. [28] On December 28, Southwest canceled 2,348 more flights. [29] [30]
The timetables of very small airlines, such as Scenic Airways, consisted of one sheet of paper, with their hub's flight time information on the front, and the return times on the back. In recent years, most airlines have stopped production of printed timetables, in order to cut costs and reduce the delay between a change of schedule and a new ...