Travelers are returning to airports in record pre-pandemic numbers this July 4th holiday weekend, but continue to face thousands of delayed and cancelled flights, data shows.
, which noted that they were 28.8% of scheduled flights overall.
More than 930 flights within, into or out of the U.S. were delayed Sunday morning, and more than 200 were canceled,. New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport and Chicago O'Hare International Airport had the highest rates of delays and cancellations.
Fifty-three flights within into, or out of the U.S. had already been canceled for the Fourth of July as of Sunday morning, according to FlightAware. Sunday's cancellations followed Saturday's 5,893 delays and 655 cancellations within, into or out of the U.S., which included the busiest air travel day of the year before Friday and had more than 3,300 flight cancellations from Friday to Monday, and Memorial Day weekend, when about 2,700 flights were canceled., have led some airlines to pre-emptively cut thousands of flights for the summer season.understaffing at the Federal Aviation Administration for flight cancellations and delays.
In an interview last month with The Associated Press, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said he wanted to wait to see how air travel over the July Fourth weekend and the rest of the summer went before he determines whether his department will take enforcement action against airlines.
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