happy 2 B stuck with U?!....over 4,500 flight cancelations on this Memorial Day weekend....

[NewtonMP2100]

.....Delta was the airline with the most cancelations.....imagine traveling....


Memorial Day weekend flight cancellations top 4,500 and counting, disrupting passengers' plans amid ramp-up in holiday travel

Flight delays and cancellations are disrupting many travelers' plans over the holiday weekend.

More than 1,100 flights were canceled Sunday as of early afternoon, heading into Memorial Day.

This is on top of another 2,300 cancellations Friday and 1,500 Saturday, the AP reported.

.....Thousands of flight delays and cancellations are throwing a wrench in many passengers' travel plans this holiday weekend.

More than 4,500 flights from airlines around the world have been canceled since Friday. Airlines canceled 1,100 additional flights Sunday as of early afternoon, according to flight-tracking site FlightAware. This follows 2,300 cancelations on Friday and 1,500 on Saturday, the Associated Press reported.

Of the flights canceled Sunday, more than 300 of those were flights within, into, or out of the US, FlightAware data shows.

Among major US carriers, Delta Air Lines reported the most disruptions in recent days. On Saturday, the company canceled roughly 250 flights, or 9% of its flight schedule, and delayed 530 flights, or 19% of its total for the day, according to FlightAware. As of early Sunday afternoon, Delta has canceled 150 flights and delayed 150 for the day.

Delta told Insider on Saturday the airline is trying to give customers 24-hour notice of cancellations when possible.

"In addition to the factors outlined in our news release, our schedule today reflects heavy impact from adverse weather and air traffic control actions yesterday," the company said in a statement.

In an additional statement on Sunday, Delta said it "notifies customers through Fly Delta App notifications, email and text message, and automatically rebooks them on the next best available option to their final destination."

Delta Chief Customer Experience Officer Allison Ausband said in the Saturday press release that there are several factors impacting the airline, including labor shortages, a rise in COVID-19 rates among staffers, and weather and air traffic control.

"More than any time in our history, the various factors currently impacting our operation ... are resulting in an operation that isn't consistently up to the standards Delta has set for the industry in recent years," Ausband said.

The disruptions come amid a particularly fraught time for the industry, coinciding with a boom in air travel heading into Memorial Day. More than 3 million people are expected to fly this holiday weekend, compared to 2.4 million people last Memorial Day weekend, according to AAA.

Nearly 2 million people passed through Transportation Security Administration (TSA) checkpoints Saturday, up from 1.6 million at the same time last year, according to agency data. On Friday, TSA screened nearly 2.4 million passengers, up from almost 2 million at the same time in 2021.

Amid growing demand, however, airlines are grappling with staff shortages. Carriers like Delta, JetBlue, and Alaska Airlines have made cuts to their flight schedules for the summer due to staffing challenges, among other factors.

Some airlines have even resorted to reducing training requirements for pilots to help plug the shortage.


so many......canceled.....flights.......?!

[Tiangou]

NewtonMP2100 wrote:
"More than any time in our history, the various factors currently impacting our operation ... are resulting in an operation that isn't consistently up to the standards Delta has set for the industry in recent years," Ausband said.

In other words: Business as usual. We knew this was coming and we over-sold. We always over-sell, and often do so by a factor over major holidays when we also charge more per seat. This is nothing new. Don't even think of reinstating airline regulation. We own you.

[Speedy]

Tiangou wrote:
[quote=NewtonMP2100]
"More than any time in our history, the various factors currently impacting our operation ... are resulting in an operation that isn't consistently up to the standards Delta has set for the industry in recent years," Ausband said.

In other words: Business as usual. We knew this was coming and we over-sold. We always over-sell, and often do so by a factor over major holidays when we also charge more per seat. This is nothing new. Don't even think of reinstating airline regulation. We own you.
Pretty much. We fly on their convenience, not ours.

[Ombligo]

And it was all weather-related, so don't ask for any compensation.

[testcase]

Oh joy......


Airports will again become super spreaders.

[pRICE cUBE]

"Delta Chief Customer Experience Officer Allison Ausband said in the Saturday press release that there are several factors impacting the airline, including labor shortages, a rise in COVID-19 rates among staffers, and weather and air traffic control."


Was on a few flights recently on Delta and not one masked employee. Not surprised they have employees falling ill. Seems inevitable being in a tightly packed flying tube with people for hours on end.

[Speedy]

I don’t miss flying one bit, especially because I enjoy driving. Our last trip this past winter was 7134 miles spread out over seven weeks (the roads were never slippery). As a truck driver I used to do that many miles and more every two weeks so it is no problem in our comfy old Cadillac. We have traveled tens of thousands of miles by car since we last flew (just as Covid came to North America.) Now my wife is a different story, but thanks to Covid she is also happy to go on trips by car as long as I do 100% of the driving.

[pRICE cUBE]

testcase wrote:
Oh joy......


Airports will again become super spreaders.

One of the big ironies in this staff shortage due to C19 causing the shortages was the push by the carriers to end the mask mandate. I would have thought they would want to keep employees healthy because cancelled flights means lost profits.

[blooz]

I didn't run into health problems on my recent trip to Europe, but a couple times I had issues before and during my stay that I wanted to resolve. I could not get to a real human being, and all the options delivered by the robo voice had nothing to do with my problem. Especially annoying when a flight gets delayed to the point one will miss a connection.

[Carnos Jax]

pRICE cUBE wrote:
[quote=testcase]
Oh joy......


Airports will again become super spreaders.

One of the big ironies in this staff shortage due to C19 causing staffing shortages was the push by the carriers to end the mask mandate. I would have thought they would want to keep employees healthy because cancelled flights means lost profits.

^^^This…..I have friends that are airline pilots and they say as it is, crew get colds/flus at a much higher rate than the general population (in fact it’s guaranteed, multiple times during each season). COVID-19 is just looking to mutate into a more viral form. It’s crazy, you’d think in high risk environments they’d want to mitigate the risk as much as possible. I think we may have one or two (ex)airline pilots in the forum that might want to corroborate that?