Thousands of airline passengers are scrambling after a slew of flight delays and cancellations disrupted their spring break travel plans over the weekend.
reports that as of Sunday morning, a total of 3,410 flights were canceled and 8,851 flights were delayed nationwide. Of those disruptions, 33 cancellations and 215 delays were domestic flights into or out of San Francisco, and 17 cancellations and 101 delays were into or out of Oakland, resulting in missed weddings, baseball games and trips to, not to mention lengthy wait times as frazzled travelers attempted to reach customer service.
He estimated that roughly 58,000 passengers were traveling through the airport over the weekend and observed plenty of long lines, but he attributed them to high travel demand as COVID-19 case rates decrease and people feel safer flying. Southwest Airlines was hit the hardest over the weekend, according to FlightAware’s data, which reported that 986 flights were canceled and 2,303 flights were delayed across the country.
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