DALLAS — Travelers flying house from July Fourth vacations dealtwith flight hold-ups Monday, however airlines were canceling less flights than in the days leading up to the vacation weekend.
Since vacation weekend travel chose up on Thursday, airlinecompanies haveactually canceled more than 2,200 U.S. flights, and another 25,000 were postponed.
Airports were loaded.
More than 9 million leaflets gathered to U.S. airports inbetween Thursday and Sunday, peaking at 2.49 million, a pandemic-era record, on Friday, according to figures from the Transportation Security Administration.
By late Monday afternoon on the East Coast, more than 2,200 U.S. flights hadactually been postponed and more than 200 canceled, according to FlightAware.
The excellent news: Those numbers were down dramatically from current days.
Flying throughout the peak getaway season has constantly been tough. Big crowds and summertime thunderstorms can rapidly overwhelm an airlinecompany’s operations. That hasactually been intensified this summerseason by lacks of pilots and other employees.
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