Get in-depth coverage of news, reviews and conversations about Texas barbecue. It's basically Christmas every day for barbecue-lovers.

Southwest Airlines executives might wanna get away following the company’s terrible, horrible, no good, very bad past couple of weeks. With nearly 17,000 flights canceled, lost luggage piled up in airports throughout the country, and countless passengers told they’d have to wait for days to find flights home from holiday gatherings, some industry analysts have called it the worst service disruption a major U.S. airline has ever endured. In a filing today, the company estimated the cost to its bottom line at between $725 million and $825 million.The whole debacle might be judged as something of an unforced error, considering that Southwest’s top brass have admitted they knew that the software the company uses to track flight crews and reschedule flights was “behind” the times…

The post Southwest’s Christmas Mess Has Roots in Its Long Financial Success appeared first on Texas Monthly.

Thank you for reading!