Southwest Airlines canceled hundreds more flights Monday following a weekend of major service disruptions.

       According to Flightaware, the carrier has canceled 348 flights Monday and delayed an additional 303 flights.

       The Dallas-based airline had blamed air-traffic control issues and weather for its weekend “operational challenges,” which saw more than 1,000 canceled flights on Sunday alone. Southwest Airlines was the only airline to report the issues on that scale.

       Southwest has struggled all summer with high numbers of delayed and canceled flights. In August it announced it was trimming its September schedule by 27 flights a day, or less than 1%, and 162 flights a day, or 4.5% of the schedule, from early October through Nov. 5.

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       Last week, Southwest became the latest airline to announce that it was imposing a vaccine mandate on its staff. The company said its workers must be fully vaccinated by Dec. 8 in order to remain at the airline. Employees can seek approval to skip the shots from medical or religious reasons.

       SWAPA, the Southwest Airlines pilots union, said shortly afterward that, while it was not against vaccines, “this announcement and lack of detail only fuels a growing divide that continues to erode the already strained relationship between Southwest Airlines and its Pilots’ Union.”

       One analyst said a possible reason for the weekend outages may be a work slowdown by pilots who oppose the mandate. The pilots union denied it was part of a job action.

       In premarket trading, shares of Southwest Air slipped 2.6%.