Southwest Airlines endured a $75 million loss over widespread cancelations and delays earlier this month that spanned several days, the Dallas-based carrier announced Thursday. Over the span of about a weekend, Southwest canceled around 2,000 flights, according to monitoring website FlightAware. While the firm blamed poor weather conditions and unspecified staffing issues on the cancelations, other major U.S. carriers appeared to operate normally. According to its earnings release, Southwest suffered “an estimated $75 million negative impact as a result of flight cancellations from operational challenges experienced earlier this month and related Customer refunds and gestures of goodwill.” The company also said it suffered another $40 million in losses “due to the lingering effects of the Delta variant,” referring to the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus strain. Now, the company will cut back on flights in December to avoid a similar shortfall due to “more conservative staffing assumptions.” The company recently …