Author: Dawn Gilbertson, USA TODAY

Airlines are extending fee waivers and some are offering passengers more flexibility to use travel credits as the coronavirus crisis drags on.

With the latest round of flight cuts, Southwest will have cut nearly 40 percent of its daily flights, including all international flights.

Southwest Airlines said it has had several days of more cancellations than bookings and that planes are flying half empty in recent days.

White House officials have repeatedly said restrictions on travel within the United States are under consideration. When will they come?

The airline’s CEO, Oscar Munoz, and president, Scott Kirby, said late Sunday that the airline carried 1 million fewer passengers in March versus a year ago.

A logjam awaited Americans following new European travel restrictions, which require returning citizens to be screened for coronavirus at 13 airports.

In addition to potential domestic restrictions, Trump added the UK and Ireland to the existing international ban.

The American Airlines pilot who tested positive for coronavirus is based at the airline’s Dallas-Fort Worth hub.

The airline fallout from President Trump’s Europe travel ban, announced late Wednesday, has begun.