FWIW Southwest is refunding fares and covering lodging, meals, and rebookings on other airlines. Not sure how much more we could ask for except the impossible “go back in time and don’t screw up.”
i'd like to see all airlines required to provide the sort of compensation that southwest is providing here
Further Southwest famously does not have interline or code sharing agreements with other carriers that would allow their agents to rebook passengers on a different airline. This is yet another detail of Southwest operations that is exacerbating the situation.