More than 7,000 flights canceled worldwide over Memorial Day weekend

The Memorial Day vacation weekend is proving a messy one for many airlines, with carriers canceling thousands of flights worldwide, including hundreds in the U.S. on Monday. 

On Monday, 1,634 flights had been canceled as of 11:52 p.m. ET, based on flight tracking website FlightAware. That followed roughly 1,640 cancellations on Sunday, 1,500 on Saturday and 2,300 on Friday. Greater than 400 of Monday's cancellations concerned aircraft scheduled to fly to or from U.S. cities.

Delta Air Strains canceled probably the most flights amongst main U.S. airlines, scratching 133 flights on Monday, or 4% of its operations, in keeping with FlightAware. The service was forced to cancel more than 400 flights on Saturday and Sunday. 

@Delta why did you cancel a flight this morning without giving a cause. Also why did you rebook my family with a baby and a 5 year old on connecting flights and all sitting individually? My 1 year old can’t sit by himself or make a 6:30am flight! Make this proper!

@Delta when did your service get so bad. You cancelled my flight from Dublin to JFK today. You rebooked me on one other flight tomorrow from Paris but didn’t provide me with a flight to get to Paris. 12 hours making an attempt to fix this now. 4 agents. Been disconnected multiple times.

Saturday's cancellations have been as a consequence of dangerous climate and "air site visitors control actions," Atlanta-based Delta said in an e mail to The Associated Press, noting it is trying to cancel flights at the least 24 hours in advance of the Memorial Day weekend. Delta told CBS Information that "round 90%" of its customers who had a cancelled flight Sunday have been rebooked on a flight "later within the day."

Delta introduced on its web site on Thursday that from July 1 to Aug. 7, it will cut back service by about 100 day by day departures, primarily in elements of the U.S. and Latin America that Delta often serves.

"Greater than any time in our history, the assorted components currently impacting our operation — weather and air traffic management, vendor staffing, increased COVID case rates contributing to higher-than-planned unscheduled absences in some work teams — are resulting in an operation that is not consistently up to the requirements Delta has set for the industry in recent years," mentioned Delta's Chief Customer Expertise Officer Allison Ausband in a put up.

Amongst different U.S. carriers, by Monday afternoon American Airways had cancelled 121 flights, or 3% of its operations, in response to FlightAware.

Airways and tourist destinations are anticipating monster crowds this summer season as journey restrictions ease and pandemic fatigue overcomes lingering worry of contracting COVID-19 throughout journey. 

Many forecasters believe the variety of vacationers will match or even surpass ranges in the good-old, pre-pandemic days. However, airlines have 1000's fewer employees than they did in 2019, and that has at instances contributed to widespread flight cancellations.

People who are solely now reserving travel for the summer season are experiencing the sticker shock.

Domestic airline fares for summer are averaging greater than $400 for a round journey, 24% higher than this time in 2019, before the pandemic, and a robust 45% larger than a yr in the past, in line with travel-data agency Hopper.

Internationally, fares are additionally up from 2019, but solely 10%. Costs to Europe are about 5% cheaper than earlier than the pandemic — $868 for the common round trip, according to Hopper. Keyes said Europe is the best travel cut price out there. That's partly on account of some travelers' considerations about traveling to the area as a result of Russia's warfare in Ukraine, which implies Western Europe is a buyer's market for the moment, according to CBS News' Peter Greenberg. 

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