What are you going to believe: Official statements or social media?... Official entities, such as the airline, the Federal Aviation Administration and the Southwest pilots union, all issued statements saying the rumors were false. But in a parallel universe of right-wing social media and television, the rumors were treated as true.... They love Southwest Airlines, but they felt they had no choice but to do this, ” declared host Tucker Carlson on his Fox News show....

Southwest Airlines planes are parked at gates at Midway International Airport Tuesday, March 17, 2020, in Chicago.... Southwest Airlines, which operates out of Chicago’s Midway and O’Hare International airports among others, was the only airline to report the issues on that scale. Southwest hasstruggled all summerwith 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