Canceled flights rise across US as summer travel heats up

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

U.S. airlines canceled high numbers of flights for a second straight day on Friday as they tried to recover from storms while accommodating growing crowds of summer vacationers.

By midmorning in the eastern U.S., airlines has scrubbed more than 1,000 flights after canceling more than 1,700 on Thursday, according to tracking service FlightAware.

Airports with the most cancellations those in Charlotte, North Carolina, a major hub for American Airlines, LaGuardia and Newark Liberty in the New York City area, and Reagan Washington National outside Washington, D.C.

On Thursday, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg held a virtual meeting with airline CEOs to go over steps the airlines are taking to operate smoothly over the July 4 holiday and the rest of the summer, and to improve accommodation of passengers who get stranded when flights are canceled.



FILE - Travelers queue up at the north security checkpoint in the main terminal of Denver International Airport, Thursday, May 26, 2022, in Denver. Airlines canceled more than 1,000 flights by midmorning Friday, June 17, as they try to recover from storms that raked the center and eastern parts of the country. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)


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[IronLionZion]

1. Flying sucks all around right now

High prices, labor shortage, high fuel prices, high demand for travel. It's nasty.

So I'm not planning any air travel until fall. I'll make do with car travel and high gas prices.

[CurtEastPoint]

2. Imagine if you will a HIGH SPEED MAGLEV NETWORK. yes, NY to LA at 375 mph?

6.6 hours. Add in some stops, 10 hours. BUT... in comfort and w/o weather bullshit

[AZLD4Candidate]

5. Shhh. . .socialist countries like South Korea and China have that

KTX and the D/G Class trains.

You commie pinko!

[cstanleytech]

6. To be fair Korea is substantially smaller than the US so they did not need to spend nearly as much

for theirs as we would have to spend here to cover the vast distances.
Not that I object to high speed rail because I fully support it being done as I firmly believe not investing in a massive high speed rail system nationwide will hurt the US economy and GDP as energy costs continue to rise in the long run.

[AZLD4Candidate]

8. China then?

[cstanleytech]

9. Bit different. First is they are more than willing to use forced labor to help get such projects

done and the second is they learned not to make the same mistake our politicians (mostly Republicans) made decades ago when they decided to let our infrastructure go to shit.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

3. With their customers' luggage trapped in the plane, an announcement saying "no accommodations" ...

With their customers’ luggage trapped in the plane, an announcement saying “no accommodations” will be offered, and customer service closed until 5am apparently,
@AmericanAir
customers (including me) basically are standing in line just waiting for it to open again in four hours.

Link to tweet

[Shrek]

4. I flew back home last night from vacation

The United lounge was absolutely swamped with people whose flights were cancelled or delayed.

[yellowdogintexas]

7. Because of flight cancellations, I bought trip insurance for the first time ever

I'm flying to Phoenix from DFW for 2 weeks in July and do not want to take any chances.

Since I am using miles, the flight only cost $11 so adding the trip insurance did not make my flight expensive.

At least DFW/Phoenix is hub to hub so there are lots of flights.

Going out I change planes in Albuquerque and returning I change planes in El Paso. Picking one stop flights lowered the number of points I had to use.