There's more travel trouble for the holiday weekend with plenty of flight cancellations and delays as air travel returns to pre-pandemic levels.
Meanwhile, a new war of words has erupted over high gas prices between the White House and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.This holiday weekend, flight issues are hitting airports hard. The top three most affected airports are Hartsfield, Jackson in Atlanta, Newark in New Jersey, and JFK in New York.On Friday alone, the Transportation Security Administration screened nearly 2.5 million people, a record high since the start of the pandemic."I spent $656 on a ticket.
"We are seeing an airline industry that is stretched. And it doesn't help that the FAA is also stretched," said Henry Harteveldt, Travel Industry Analyst."Because when I checked with the airplane prices, they were like ridiculous," a driver said. "He tells exactly what he's thinking in terms that everybody can understand. So, I think, we obviously take great exception of the idea that this is somehow misdirection," Kirby said.
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