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The U.S. State Department issued a travel advisory for Mexico’s resort-studded Caribbean coast Monday after medallion taxi drivers started harassing and attacking drivers from the ride-hailing app Uber and their customers.

Southwest canceled more than 16,000 flights over the holidays.

Snowfall created tricky travel conditions across the state during the day and into the night Monday.

The captain of the plane told investigators flight conditions were smooth with clear skies when the cloud shot up in front of the plane and there was no time to change course.

Though a majority of the nation’s parks are free year-round, roughly 100 of them have entrance fees ranging from $5 to $35 depending on the location.

Thousands of flights across the U.S. were canceled or delayed Wednesday after a system that offers safety information to pilots failed, and the government launched an investigation into the breakdown, which grounded some planes for hours.

Passengers spent over 36 hours on a train when a freight car derailment stopped Amtrak Auto Train 53 in North Carolina overnight.

The Federal Aviation Administration grounded departing flights on Wednesday after it experienced a computer outage.

Flights across the United States were brought to a standstill Wednesday morning after a computer outage at the Federal Aviation Administration.

Indian police have arrested an unruly airline passenger following a complaint by a woman aboard an Air India flight from New York that he urinated on her in business class.

Southwest Airlines is trying to fix its relationship with travelers who got stuck by canceled flights over the holidays.

Southwest Airlines returned to a relatively normal flight schedule Friday, as the focus shifts to making things right with what could be well more than a million passengers who missed family connections or flights home during the holidays, and many of whom are still missing luggage.

The airline is trying to extract itself from a sustained scheduling mess.

It has less to do with the weather and more to do with something called the “point-to-point” model.

SWAPA, the union that represents Southwest Airlines’ pilots, says the way Southwest routes are designed is part of the reason the airline has had such a difficult time rebounding from winter weather delays and cancellations.

The airline cut another 60% of its schedule even as operations at other airlines improved.

In a video statement released Tuesday, Southwest CEO Robert Jordan apologized for the airline’s struggle to operate during the busy holiday travel week.

Rows of baggage carts could be seen on the tarmac at Dallas Love Field Airport on Tuesday.

Travelers dealt with widespread difficulties in the lead-up to the Christmas holiday weekend as a winter storm pummeled the U.S., but even as some of the effects of the storm lingered, much of the travel disruptions were expected to be cleared by this week — except for those who flew on Southwest Airlines.