More than 550 flights were canceled and almost 2,400 were delayed this Wednesday in the US due to the lack of personnel in airlines and airports in the face of high tourist demand after the lifting of travel restrictions due to the pandemic.
(Read: ‘Las fake del face’: The alleged call of migrants who died in Texas)
According to the portal FlightAwareon Wednesday 567 flights were canceled in the country, figures in the same vein as the 500 cancellations on Tuesday, the 800 on Monday and 1,500 throughout the weekend, and the trend may worsen ahead of the national holiday of July 4, Independence Day.
(He is interested in: Approaches between Venezuela and the US: they would trade prisoners for oil)
Over the weekend of Memorial Weekend, which was held on May 29 and is considered the unofficial start of the summer travel season, some 2,800 cancellations have already been recorded.
Major airlines including American, Delta, JetBlue and United have announced cuts to their routes this summerand according to a letter sent this week by the employer, Airlines for America (A4A), to the Department of Transportation, the offer of flights between June and August has been reduced by 15 percent.
The main problem has been the lack of airline personnel, especially pilots, who have denounced long working hours once the restrictions due to covid-19 were lifted and demand an improvement in conditions, especially in salary compensation and protections.
As we mentioned: a weekend of chaos is coming at US airports for the 4th of July holiday. Delta Airlines in plane eliminated the penalty for changing travel dates and the fare change for those days
– Gabriela Frías (@gfrias) June 29, 2022
Delta pilots, some 13,900, announced a campaign of demonstrations across the country for Thursday in protest of the prolonged negotiations of their new contracts, which have not been updated since 2016, they said in a statement.
The president of one of the units of the Airline Pilots Association related to Delta, Jason Ambrosi, expressed concern about the interruptions in flights around July 4 and warned that a “perfect storm” is forming.
Ambrosi explained in the note that the demand has returned, that the pilots are making a “record” of overtime and even so the passengers are “staying stranded and their plans ruined”, but the airline’s management continues without resolving its problems in the negotiating table.
Delta is now allowing customers to change their trips around July 4 at no additional cost in anticipation of more cancellations and delays.
A4A also highlighted in its letter that air traffic control has also been a factor in a third of recent cancellations, noting that understaffing at some Federal Aviation Administration facilities is “disrupting flows across the coast.” East”.
INTERNATIONAL WRITING
*With information from Efe
More world news
– Video: lightning strikes a boat in Florida
– They record a thief screaming in pain after being pierced by a fence that he was avoiding
– Bolsonaro: sentenced to pay for sexist offenses against a journalist
#mass #cancellation #flights #United #States