Mary MacCarthy, left, filed a lawsuit against Southwest Airlines on Thursday, accusing the airline of racially profiling her and her biracial daughter. Los Angeles resident Mary MacCarthy and her daughter were already grieving and in shock when police stopped them on the jet bridge causeway between their airplane and the exiting gate at Denver International Airport in fall 2021. MacCarthy’s 46-year-old bother, Michael, had unexpectedly died the day earlier, and the mother and daughter were flying to be with family in Denver when police informed her that the airline contacted...

A still image from body-camera footage taken by a Denver police officer of the October 2021 incident involving Mary MacCarthy and her daughter, Moira. An airline passenger said she and her daughter were racially profiled in 2021 while aboard a flight to Denver for a relative’s funeral. Mary MacCarthy and her 10-year-old daughter, Moira, had just deplaned at Denver International Airport when two Denver police officers met them at the gate, calling them by name and notifying them that they had been reported for suspicious behavior. The mother and daughter...

Mary MacCarthy, a white woman, was accused by a Southwest Airlines flight attendant of trafficking her own biracial daughter and they were confronted by police officers after disembarking the plane, and subsequently contacted by a human trafficking unit investigator. MacCarthy is now suing the airline over the incident, claiming that the airline flagged her as suspicious "based on a racist assumption about a mixed‐race family." "The officers began questioning Ms. MacCarthy and made it clear that they were given the racially charged information that Ms.

A mother is suing Southwest Airlines for racial discrimination, saying she was accused of human trafficking when traveling with her biracial child. Mary MacCarthy, who is White, traveled from California to Denver with her daughter, who is Black, to attend her brother’s funeral in October of 2021, according to the lawsuit filed Thursday. “Unbeknownst to Ms. MacCarthy, while they were in the air, a Southwest employee called the Denver Police Department to report Ms. MacCarthy for suspected child trafficking for no reason other than the different color of her daughter’s...

Shares of Southwest Airlines Co. LUV inched 0.14% higher to $29.63 Tuesday, on what proved to be an all-around rough trading session for the stock market, with the S&P 500 Index SPX falling 0.46% to 4,119.17 and Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA falling 0.17% to 33,561.81.

Southwest Airlines Co. closed $16.83 short of its 52-week high ($46.46), which the company reached on June 1st.

Those scheduled to travel on Southwest Airlines flights out of Corpus Christi International Airport on Tuesday could experience delays, according to the city of Corpus Christi. Southwest Airlines announced nationwide delays Tuesday morning due to "data connection issues." The airline resumed operations by Tuesday afternoon. "CCIA understands the inconvenience this may cause passengers and is working closely with Southwest Airlines to keep passengers updated," a news release from the city stated.

Southwest Airlines caused delays and disruptions to travel itineraries to roughly a thousand customers on Tuesday, after the Federal Aviation Association issued a grounding order following reports from the airline that they were experiencing technical issues once again.In a press release, Southwest said the order was put in place because of problems with a vendor-supplied firewall failure which caused a loss of connection to operational data.Just before 11 a.m.

If you have a flight out of Nashville International Airport on Southwest, double check your itenterary.

The Federal Aviation Administration Tuesday morning announced that Southwest Airlines requested a pause on all departures.

"Please contact Southwest Airlines for more information," the FAA tweeted.

Southwest has not yet released any statements about why they called for the pause.

(CNN) -- The Federal Aviation Administration has issued a nationwide ground stop for Southwest Airlines flights, citing "equipment issues." "Southwest Airlines requested the FAA pause the airline's departures," the agency told CNN in a statement. Southwest Airlines reported technology issues Tuesday morning and said it would "hopefully be resuming our operation as soon as possible." The flight tracking website FlightAware said nearly 800 of the airline's flights -- about 14 percent of its schedule -- were delayed Tuesday, far ahead of any US carrier.

(CNN) -- The Federal Aviation Administration has issued a nationwide ground stop for Southwest Airlines flights, citing "equipment issues." "Southwest Airlines requested the FAA pause the airline's departures," the agency told CNN in a statement. Southwest Airlines reported technology issues Tuesday morning and said it would "hopefully be resuming our operation as soon as possible." The flight tracking website FlightAware said nearly 800 of the airline's flights -- about 14 percent of its schedule -- were delayed Tuesday, far ahead of any US carrier.