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Southwest Airlines canceled more than 90,000 flights from its November and December calendars, trying desperately to bypass empty aircraft traveling into the important holiday travel season. Dallas-based Southwest canceled 38,000 flights from its November plans, or about 36% of all trips, according to Dallas-based Airline Data Inc. The carrier also made 55,000 flights for December, almost half of its entire schedule. “We recently updated our November and December declared schedules aligning to what’s become a method through the late season, summer, and now fall and into the holiday season... simply because some people are traveling," said Southwest spokesman Brad Hawkins in an email. “Of course, we’re adding in extra flights to place in on the part of the Southwest Promise to keep middle seats open (currently within Nov. 30), but this is just an effort to put forth a schedule that marks the need for travel that we’re seeing.” As recently as May, Southwest was bullish on holiday tr...