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An unprecedented week of vacation in the United States begins, from the highways to the skies, on the eve of Independence Day on July 4, with more than 50 million people in travel.
The Transportation Security Administration announced it screened 2.88 million passengers on Friday, the highest the agency has ever recorded in a single day. However…
In fact, travelers continued to face problems and cancellations these days. Bad weather, technological failures and staff shortages would be the reasons for the massive interruptions.
The airlines blame this chaos on the Federal Aviation Administration for not employing enough staff, but the Biden administration rejects such accusations.
Pete Buttigieg, the US Secretary of Transportation, told “Face the Nation” on Sunday: “Let me be very clear: even according to the industry’s own data, air traffic control personnel problems account for less than 10% of the minutes of delay in the system.”
He added: “I think most passengers understand that no one can control the weather, but whatever the airlines control and whatever we can do on the FAA side, we need to keep pushing.”
The difficulties at the airports began more than a week ago and thousands of planes were canceled or delayed.
Airlines are turning to off-duty flight attendants to fill capacity gaps but several analysts say they’ve never seen such chaos in the United States, with the problems set to continue all this summer.
We have seen many delays and cancellations these days, but already this Monday afternoon, the situation seems to be better with only two thousand delays and 120 cancellations around the country. Also, today, less people are traveling compared to the weekend but the scenario could change in the face of new storms and new delays.
