Hundreds of flight cancellations and delays along with rerouted passengers -- and baggage -- make for an unhappy day at the airport for weary holiday travelers.
Frustrated families spent hours in check-in lines and searching through a sea of baggage Monday at Chicago's Midway International Airport in a post-Christmas travel mess that saw thousands of Southwest Airlines flights canceled and delayed.
Some passengers said they were stuck for three or four hours in lines that spanned the entire length of Midway's upper-level departures concourse. Southwest Airlines accounted for almost all the Midway disruptions, with 68% of its flights into or out of the airport canceled and another 17% delayed, according to the flight tracking website FlightAware. Southwest had more O'Hare flights canceled than any other airline, too -- about 86% of its trips were called off there -- and made up 45% of all canceled flights within, into or out of the United States on Monday.
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