Greater than 450 flights have been delayed at Denver Worldwide Airport on Sunday after the airport’s baggage dealing with system skilled a mechanical malfunction.
One other 60 flights have been canceled, in accordance with FlightAware.com.
A complete of 481 flights out and in of Denver have been delayed, as of 6 p.m. Sunday. Of the disruptions, 225 delays concerned Southwest Airways flights and one other 115 delays concerned United Airways flights, FlightAware.com reported. Southwest canceled one flight whereas United canceled 56.
Alaska Airways additionally canceled two flights, however on Sunday the airline grounded all of its Boeing 737 Max 9 jetliners after one aircraft’s fuselage blew out three miles above above Oregon on Friday evening.
The Denver airport’s baggage system skilled a mechanical difficulty on Sunday morning nevertheless it was mounted by the afternoon, mentioned Ashley Forest, an airport spokeswoman. Nevertheless, the airport was nonetheless working by means of the backlog on Sunday afternoon and get baggage to the best places, she mentioned.
Forest mentioned she didn’t know whether or not the bags system malfunction precipitated the flight delays and referred inquiries to particular person airways.
The Southwest flight delays for its passengers have been brought on by the bags system’s break down, mentioned Alyssa Foster, an organization spokeswoman.
“Southwest Airways workers are working to get the luggage by means of the system and loaded onto their respective planes, nonetheless that is leading to delays for our Denver departures,” Foster wrote in an emailed assertion from the corporate’s media relations division mentioned. “We apologize to clients for the inconvenience and admire their endurance as we work to get them to their locations as shortly as potential.”
In September 2022, the Denver Metropolis Council accepted a $500 million contract to improve the airport’s baggage system.
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