Hundreds of flights around the world were canceled on Sunday evening, adding to the growing number of flights canceled during Memorial Day holiday weekend in the United States.
As of Monday, nearly 1,100 flights had been canceled at 8:15 a.m. Eastern time, according to the FlightAware flight tracking website. This was followed by approximately 1,640 cancellations on Sunday, 1,500 on Saturday and 2,300-hundred on Friday. Nearly 270 of Monday’s early cancellations involved planes scheduled to fly to or from U.S. cities.
Delta Air Lines canceled most flights among major U.S. airlines, with more than 100 flights on Monday, or 3% of its operations, according to FlightAware. The carrier was forced to cancel more than 400 flights on Saturday and Sunday.
Saturday’s cancellations were due to bad weather and “air traffic control actions,” Atlanta-based Delta said in an email to The Associated Press, noting that it is trying to cancel flights at least 24 hours before Memorial Day weekend. Delta told CBS News that “about 90%” of its customers who had a flight canceled on Sunday were re-booked on a flight “later in the day.”
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Delta announced on its website on Thursday that from July 1 to August 7, it would reduce service by about 100 daily departures, mainly to parts of the United States and Latin America that Delta serves frequently.
“More than at any time in our history, the various factors that currently affect our operation (weather and air traffic control, vendor staff, increased COVID case rates that contribute to higher than expected unscheduled absences in some working groups) are leading to an operation that doesn’t live up to the standards Delta has set for the industry in recent years, ”said Delta Customer Experience Director Allison Ausband. in a post.
Airlines and tourist destinations are anticipating crowds of monsters this summer, as travel restrictions are eased and pandemic fatigue overcomes the persistent fear of contracting COVID-19 while traveling.
Many forecasters believe that the number of passengers will equal or even exceed the levels in the days before the pandemic. However, airlines have thousands fewer employees than in 2019, and this has sometimes contributed to widespread flight cancellations.
People who only book summer trips now are experiencing the adhesive shock.
Domestic air fares for the summer exceed $ 400 round trip, 24% more than this time in 2019, before the pandemic, and 45% higher than a year ago, according to the data firm Hopper Travel.
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