Regional airline SkyWest cancels hundreds of flights

SkyWest Airways, which operates many flights for the nation’s greatest airways, canceled about 1,000 flights Thursday and Friday due to what it known as an inside technical problem. The airline mentioned it was working to return to regular operations however anticipated important cancellations Friday. By way of late morning, SkyWest had canceled greater than 350 flights for the day, in line with monitoring service FlightAware.

“SkyWest skilled an inside technical problem, leading to roughly 700 flight cancellations earlier than the problem was resolved Thursday night,” spokeswoman Marissa Snow mentioned. “We apologize to prospects for the inconvenience; we’re working to attenuate the affect on Friday’s schedule and to return to regular operations as rapidly as potential.”

SkyWest, primarily based in Utah, is a regional provider that operates flights for different airways with planes that sometimes seat fewer than 100 passengers. SkyWest flights are listed as United Specific, Delta Connection, American Eagle and Horizon Air. Passengers on these flights won’t know that they’re being operated by a regional airline.