Stranded Southwest customers detail efforts to get home amid flight cancellations
Stranded Southwest customers details efforts to get home amid flight cancellations. Southwest customers across the country were left stranded this week, when a growing list of flight cancellations left many desperately seeking alternative Travel options in hopes of getting home in time for celebrations, work, their Health and more. A long ride home Dianne Martinez, 56, is currently driving from Charleston, South Carolina, to Nashville, Tennessee. She’s epileptic, and “only had so many days in medicine” from her stay in Charleston. She drove Tuesday for roughly 10 hours after a three-hour wait to get a rental car because there were no available Southwest flights to Nashville for days, she said, and prices had skyrocketed on flights on alternative airlines. Southwest Airlines passengers look for their luggage at Hollywood Burbank Airport in Burbank, California, Dec. 27, 2022. Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images “We were looking at the other airlines and it was like $2,000, $3,000 for a ...