
Here’s what to do if you’re one of those passengers. Thousands of flights have been canceled since Christmas weekend, leaving passengers scrambling to find a way back home. And I'm just hoping to see if I can get on the 12:45 flight back to Houston, which I doubt very much,” he said.

Instead, he was one of the many people standing in the Southwest check-in line hoping to make the next available flight. “I'm tryin’ to keep positive, tryin’ to stay positive about this day before I have a meltdown,” she said with her baby girl strapped on her chest and juggling a luggage carrier piled high with suitcases, “because I’m ready to go home.”īarnes has been in Salt Lake with her daughter since Wednesday and said her visit has been great, “except this right here,” nodding to the long line in front of her.īen Eaton was supposed to return home to Houston on Monday. That was the case for Alisha Barnes, who discovered that morning that her connecting flight from Houston to Birmingham was canceled. Many were conversing about their travel woes with those standing next to them. Travelers waiting to arrange new Southwest Airlines flights stretched past the queue at Salt Lake City International Airport late Tuesday morning.
