Factbox: U.S. airline disruptions create summer of travel chaos
29/06/2022 18:10
CHICAGO, June 29 (Reuters) - The lifting of COVID-19 curbs
and bottled-up travel demand are translating into the strongest
summer since the pandemic for U.S. carriers. However, frequent
mass flight cancellations are creating chaos for their
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U.S. airlines have canceled more than 21,000 flights, or
about 2.7% of the scheduled total since the Memorial Day holiday
weekend in May, almost double last year's rate, according to
flight-tracking service FlightAware. Flight delays are also
higher than in 2021.
Here's how some major carriers have been performing since
May 26.
Carriers Scheduled Canceled %canceled %delayed
flights flights
American 101,317 4,755 4.7% 27.8%
Airlines
United 74,571 2,125 2.8% 23.5%
Airlines
Delta Air 95,300 3,529 3.7% 20.6%
Lines
Southwest 124,350 1,283 1.0% 27.9%
Airlines
JetBlue 30,082 843 2.8% 35.3%
Airways
Alaska 22,671 183 0.8% 18.7%
Airlines
Spirit 23,663 314 1.3% 23.2%
Airlines
Frontier 15,271 101 0.7% 29.7%
Airlines
Hawaiian 7,186 0 0.0% 20.8%
Airlines
Republic 33,904 2,872 8.5% 21.9%
Airways
Source: FlightAware
(Reporting by Rajesh Kumar Singh; editing by Diane Craft)
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