Scattered showers and thunderstorms may arrive later Thursday in the Northeast, and storms were also forecast farther south along the East Coast through Saturday. The Transportation Security Administration said it expected to screen the most travelers on Friday - a predicted 2.82 million people. The FAA said Thursday would be the busiest day of the holiday stretch by number of flights. She is so worried it could happen again that she is reconsidering a business trip next month to Los Angeles. Hendrix said she lost working time and spent $700 out of pocket. I blame Buttigieg for sitting on his hands” and not staffing up air traffic control centers sooner. Their pilots and flight crews were working very hard,” she said. On the other hand, her pilot, “Captain Dan,” waited in the airport and helped passengers after the flight was canceled. Hendrix said a Delta agent threatened to cancel her reservation when she complained about being offered only a $50 voucher for her trip troubles. She woke up some mornings not knowing where she was. She was stranded one night in Atlanta and two in Orlando, when connecting flights were canceled.
Sonia Hendrix, who runs a public-relations firm in New York, took four days to get home from a business trip to Colorado. “Just put me on a boat at this point,” she said. Duran, who does marketing for an insurance company, wound up paying about $640 for a one-way ticket to Orlando - with a stop in the Florida Keys - on United Express and Silver Airways.ĭuran didn’t care when they told her it would be a very small plane. Her boyfriend spotted a $1,200 seat on another airline, but it was gone before they could buy it.
“As the recovery progresses, delays and cancellations will continue to decline as we head into what we expect to be a very busy holiday weekend.”īecause planes are packed for the summer, it is hard for airlines to rebook customers when flights are canceled – there aren’t many empty seats.Īriana Duran of Orlando, Florida, said JetBlue rebooked her for seven days later when her flight home from Newark was canceled this week. “We’re seeing continued meaningful improvement today after an overnight effort to further repair schedules and match separated crews with aircraft,” the airline said in a midday statement. United said it was getting a handle on its problems. He said the company scheduled summer flights “to the max” even knowing about air traffic control limits in the Northeast. “The airline actually ‘lost’ crews in the system for days on end because there was such a significant breakdown in running the operation,” said Ken Diaz, president of the flight attendants’ group at United. The Association of Flight Attendants also said crews calling in for assignments have been put on hold for three hours or longer. United is offering triple pay to flight attendants who are scheduled off this weekend but agree to pick up extra flights, according to their union. “While Scott Kirby attempts to deflect blame on the FAA, weather and everything in between, further flight delays are a direct result of poor planning by United Airlines executives,” Garth Thompson said.
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The leader of United’s union pilots - who are locked in difficult contract negotiations - blamed management for the disruptions, saying the company failed to upgrade a crew-scheduling system. The FAA plans to hire 3,300 controllers over two years, but they won’t be ready to help this summer, much less this weekend.
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