Qué PASÓ Southwest Airlines, which uses the Harlingen Airport as its RGV base, basically collapsed over the Christmas holiday weekend and subsequent days, and a lot of passengers were left stranded, wondering, asking: how could this happen? The other airlines are flying after the weather had passed, so please don’t insult us by blaming it all on the wintry weather, which was the airline’s initial excuse for its terrible performance during one of the year’s busiest travel periods, Christmas, when AAA had predicted that nearly 7.2 million people would fly between Dec. 23 and Jan. 2.The Early Texas Days In ...