>"Anecdotally, I flew Southwest just before Christmas. The network was already buckling and we had major delays, but we were lucky and made it through." Intere

>"Anecdotally, I flew Southwest just before Christmas. The network was already buckling and we had major delays, but we were lucky and made it through." Interesting. You don't say how far before Christmas you were traveling. Had this crazy weather system already started moving from West to East at that point? Or was the system buckling just from passenger volume at the point i.e similar to the Summer meltdown that Southwest had?