Hundreds of flights around the world were canceled by noon on Sunday, adding to the growing number of refined flights during the busy holiday of Remembrance Day in the United States.
More than 1,260 flights were canceled at 2:30 p.m. EDT on Sunday, according to the flight tracking website FlightAware. This followed more than 2,300 cancellations on Friday and another 1,500 on Saturday.
More than 350 of those canceled on Sunday included planes scheduled to fly to or from US cities.
Delta Air Lines canceled the most flights among major US airlines, with more than 250 flights, or 9 percent of operations, eliminated on Saturday. More than 140 Delta flights were canceled by noon on Sunday, according to FlightAware.
Saturday’s cancellations are due to bad weather and “air traffic control actions,” the Atlanta-based Delta said in an email to the Associated Press, noting that it was trying to cancel flights at least 24 hours before Remembrance Day weekend.
Delta announced on its website on Thursday that it will reduce the service by about 100 daily departures from July 1 to August 7, mainly in parts of the United States and Latin America that Delta frequently serves.
“More than ever in our history, the various factors that currently affect our work – weather and air traffic control, supplier staff, increased number of COVID cases, contributing to higher-than-planned unplanned absences in some working groups – lead to an operation that does not consistently meet the standards that Delta has set for the industry in recent years, ”said Alison Ausband, Delta’s Chief Customer Service Officer.
Airlines and tourist destinations are expecting huge crowds this summer as travel restrictions ease and pandemic fatigue overcomes the continuing fear of COVID-19 infection while traveling.
Many forecasters believe that the number of passengers will coincide or even exceed the levels before the pandemic. However, airlines have thousands fewer employees than in 2019, and this has sometimes contributed to the widespread cancellation of flights.
People who are only now booking a trip for the summer are shocked by the sticker.
Domestic airline prices for the summer averaged more than $ 400 for a return trip, 24% higher than this time in 2019, before the pandemic, and a steady 45% higher than a year ago, according to the data company. for travel Hopper.
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