The Dallas Morning News
The Dallas Morning News is a major daily newspaper serving the Dallas, Texas area, with over 400,000 daily subscribers. It was founded on October 1, 1885, by Alfred Horatio Belo as a satellite publication of the Galveston Daily News, of Galveston, Texas. Today it has one of the 20 largest paid circulations in the United States. Throughout the 1990s and as recently as 2010, the paper has won numerous Pulitzer Prizes for reporting and photography, George Polk Awards for education reporting and regional reporting, and an Overseas Press Club award for photography. The company has its headquarters in Downtown Dallas.
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Dallas-based Southwest Airlines is experiencing some of the most dramatic cancellations and delays in history, with some putting blame on the carrier’s operational systems.
For nearly a week, passengers have been stranded at airports across the country, with thousands of flights delayed or canceled during the holidays. The meltdown is likely to cost Southwest Airlines hundreds of millions of dollars.
The carrier is one of a few that still uses a point-to-point route system, where airlines fly between smaller markets at shorter distances. Point-to-point systems, or direct-route systems, used to be the norm for carriers before the U.S. federal government deregulated the airlines in 1978. Since then, most of the country’s major carriers have adopted a hub-and-spoke route system, which allows for multiple spokes, or routes, to connect to designated hub airports.