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Americans received a new federal holiday last year: Junteenth. This year, the holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the United States is coming up on Sunday, but it will be observed in many places on Monday, June 20th.
As this long summer weekend coincides with Father’s Day, a lot of trips will take place.
Friday before Junteen The most popular air travel day of 2022, According to figures from the Traffic Safety Administration. Thanksgiving is upon us, which means the holiday season is in full swing.
TSA officials said they screened about 2,438,784 people at airport security checkpoints across the country on Friday, the highest number of checkpoints on Sunday since November 28, after Thanksgiving. It had about 100,000 more passengers than the Friday before Memorial Day weekend.
“Welcome to the Junteenth Holiday Weekend!” TSA spokeswoman Lisa Forbesstein wrote on Twitter.
Jundeint became an official holiday last year, the first year that the US stock market and banks have closed in its memory.
There can be no increase in numbers Bad times are coming for American airlines. The combination of rough weather, staff shortages and infrastructure challenges left major carriers unable to sustain the rise of travel. Nearly 9,000 flights were delayed in the United States on Friday and another 1,500 flights were canceled According to the FlightAware data group.
More than 850 flights were canceled on Saturday per flight. Late on Sunday, More than 900 aircraft Within the United States, entry or exit was canceled that day, FlightAware pointed out.
Increase in delays and cancellations Transport Secretary Pete Boutique has arrived a day after meeting with airline CEOs to discuss ways to improve performance and functionality ahead of another trip expected for the July 4 holiday.
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About 2,700 flights were canceled over Memorial Day weekend. As the hot summer heats up, major airlines are already canceling more flights in advance. Southwest Airlines has reduced Nearly 20,000 flights June and Labor Day and has been struggling to hire 10,000 new workers, saying it needs to meet demand.
“I go through Waterburgh Drive-Thru, I pay and get my bag, and stamping the bag is a job application,” Southwest CEO Robert Jordan joked. Dallas Morning News About the difficulty in finding last year’s job applicants. “That’s where it came from.”
Delta says it will cancel 100 flights daily in the United States and Latin America from July 1 to August 7. In an open letter to customers, Delta pilots wrote that due to labor shortages, they are flying at a much faster pace than all other days this year. 2018 and 2019 combined.
“The pilot shortage for the industry is real, and most airlines will not be able to realize their capacity plans because there are not enough pilots, at least not for the next five years,” Kirby said during the airline’s quarterly revenue call with United Airlines CEO Scott in April.
The unions, which represent Delta, American and Southwestern pilots, say airlines have brought themselves to the status quo by refusing to replace retired and retired pilots during the height of the epidemic. When the plane crashed.
About 8,000 new commercial pilots were certified last year, according to pilot unions. There should be no shortage. Current service cut description, They sayUsed by companies to justify reducing training and safety requirements that increase profit margins.
Some U.S. senators are concerned. “While the cancellation of some flights is inevitable, the number of delays and cancellations over the past weekend raises questions about the airline’s decision-making,” senators Richard Blumenthal and Edward Marquez wrote in a letter to Boutique earlier this month.
