This Independence Day weekend was full of swimming, barbeque, and unfortunately, a huge amount of flights that were delayed or cancelled.
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) recorded 2,490,490 checked-in passengers during security on Friday, July 3. The last time the number was this high was on February 11, 2020 where it was 2,507,588 passengers.
That Friday, FlightAware calculated that 464 flights, international and domestic, were cancelled and 6,600 were delayed, which was 28.8% of total flights. Numbers were lower the ensuing weekend, however, over 850 flights were cancelled, and more than 6,830 flights were still delayed in total that weekend.
Most of these numbers came from Chicago O’Hare International Airport, New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport, and Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport.
Airlines have been struggling to find staff, especially pilots, that are willing to work in the skies and expose themselves to Covid. This results in a couple thousand flights being either cancelled or delayed.
The Secretary of Transportation, Pete Buttigieg, is trying to determine if he should take action against these airlines. Currently, Buttigieg is looking over how this July 4th weekend went, and he said in a tweet that passengers of cancelled flights can get refunds.
On the other hand, we shouldn’t look at this in a completely negative way. TSA Spokesperson, Lisa Farbstein, tweeted in a post that “we are back to pre-pandemic volume.”
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) recorded 2,490,490 checked-in passengers during security on Friday, July 3. The last time the number was this high was on February 11, 2020 where it was 2,507,588 passengers.
That Friday, FlightAware calculated that 464 flights, international and domestic, were cancelled and 6,600 were delayed, which was 28.8% of total flights. Numbers were lower the ensuing weekend, however, over 850 flights were cancelled, and more than 6,830 flights were still delayed in total that weekend.
Most of these numbers came from Chicago O’Hare International Airport, New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport, and Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport.
Airlines have been struggling to find staff, especially pilots, that are willing to work in the skies and expose themselves to Covid. This results in a couple thousand flights being either cancelled or delayed.
The Secretary of Transportation, Pete Buttigieg, is trying to determine if he should take action against these airlines. Currently, Buttigieg is looking over how this July 4th weekend went, and he said in a tweet that passengers of cancelled flights can get refunds.
On the other hand, we shouldn’t look at this in a completely negative way. TSA Spokesperson, Lisa Farbstein, tweeted in a post that “we are back to pre-pandemic volume.”
