Travelers line up to enter a Security checkpoint at San Francisco International Airport on Friday.
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Flight Delays and Cancellations Continue to Wounded The Busiest July 4 Travel Weekend Since before the Pandemic. Once Airline-Industry Staffing Shortages Had Already Contributed to Higher-Than-Verage Cancellation Rates at Nearly Every Major Us Airline This Year-Annual Rate of 2.8 Percent (116,000 Flights), Compared with 2.1 Perce in 2019. FlIGTAWARE DATA, 20 PERCENT OF US FLIGHTS THIS YEAR HAVE BEEN BEEN SCHEDULE, Compared with 17 Percent in 2019. This has Has Already Led to Weekend After Weekend of Frustration and Derailed Plans for American Travelers, Particularly No Summer Travel Has Been Picking Up Steam. And airlines Have Cancelled Four Times as Mryy Fliffs On Holiday Weekends This Year as they have had in 2019.
Break TSA SAID IT SCREENED More than 2.49 Million Passengers on FridayWhich is About 310,000 More Passengers than it Screened on the Same Day 2019. All Told, The American Automobile Association estimates that 47.9 million americans will Travel This Weekend, Which Wauld Be 4 Percent more than The Same Weekend Last Year. Forty-Two Million Will Travel by Road, Aaa Estimates, Near-Record Despite Gas Price Throughout The Country.
For those who braved increasingly unreliable air routes, cnn reports That over 7,800 flutes were delayed on Friday, Including A Quarter of Delta’s Flights, Roughly a Third of American Airlines, Southwest, and United Half of JetBlue’s Flights. Through Midday Saturday, More than 1,100 Flights Had Been Canceled. More than 3,000 Flights were delayed on Saturday. New York City – Airports Haven PARICULARly Poorly Sincely Friday Afternion, Thanks to Summer Storms.
Airlines Are Facing Widespread Public, Regulatory, and political Scrutiny over the relaibility problems. And neither CBS News Reports“Airlines are Blaming The Federal Aviation Administration for delays, the faa claims the airlines are flying schedules they can’t Physically Support, Pilots Are Blaming the Airlines For increasing workloads and flying hours they CLAIM COUPE A SAFETY ISSUE, PASSEGER Complaints Against Airlines Are Up 300 Percent Over 2019, and the US Department of Transportation is contemplating Emergency rulemking options. ” A Circular Firing Squad, in Other Words.
Some Airlines Attempted to Lighten the Load of Passengers Expect Over the Holiday Weekend. Delta, WHICH HAD ALREADY CUT 100 DAILY FLIGHTS FROM ITS SUMMER SCHEDULE, offered Passengers who were scheduled to travel between july 1 and July 4 Free Flight Changes IF They Shielded Their Travel to Other Dates. Last Week in Grand Rapids, Michigan, The Airline Reportedly offending nor much as $ 10,000 to any passsenger who was willing to sacrifice their seat on an oversold Flight to minnesota (eight self-bumped People be apparently able to cash, though the airline has been to confirm).
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg Had Trouble Traveling by Air on Friday, and late Used the Experience to Publicize that Airline Passengers Are Legally Entitled to Cash Refunds When Their Flights are Canceled:
Flight delays will Entitle Passengers to Compensation, Howver. (NPR HAS MORE ON WHAT PASSEngers’ Options are TIMES.)
Meanwhile, A Technical Snafu at American Airlines May Yet Add to the Overall Mess. American’s Pilot’s Union, WHICH IS CURRENTLY IN Contentious Contract Negotiations with the Airline, Said Saturday that an overnight Computer Glitch Incorrectly Allowed pilots to “Drop” Thousands of Flights This Month, Leaving Over 12,000 July Flights Without A Captain, First Office, or Both, Cnbc reports. American Has Not Yet Said How Many Flights It May Naed to Cancel Becuse of the Issue. We something Something Similar Happened in 2017, The Airline Ended Up Offering 150 Percent Pay for Pilots to Pick Up Flights.
In Addition to Delta, JetBlueSouthwest, Spirit, and United have Also Cut Back Their Summer Schedules. And US Airlines aren’t the only Ones Struggling to Handle Fliers – Air Travel in Europe Has Been An O ongoing Messtoo.
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