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Will U.S. Airlines Recover by This Weekend?
25.07.2023 - 10:11 / afar.com / Gary Leff / Brett Snyder / Airlines
Six days of bad weather, especially at hub airports, has kept myriad travelers from reaching their destination this week. According to FlightAware, a website that tracks delays and cancellations, more than 8,000 U.S. flights have been axed since Saturday, June 24, and an additional 30,000-plus were delayed.
Only days ahead of the Fourth of July holiday weekend, many travelers with upcoming flights may be wondering if they’ll make it to their destination.
“Significant systematic delays and cancellations can take a few days to work out since planes and crew are out of position,” said Gary Leff, author of ViewFromTheWing.com. “However, that does seem to mostly be happening, and things should be much-improved entering the weekend.”
Brett Snyder, president of Cranky Concierge, an air travel assistance service (including urgent help when flights are canceled or delayed), echoed that sentiment, saying that airlines have said they “hope to be well into the recovery by the weekend.” But he added that it really all depends on external factors.
“Sunday and Monday look like stormy days up and down the East Coast,” Snyder said. “If that materializes in ways that block air traffic, then it could get ugly once again. But with summer storms, you just never know how or when they will materialize.”
As of 3 p.m. ET on Thursday, June 29, more than 500 flights had been canceled and more than 3,500 were delayed for the day—a number that is likely to increase as poor weather continues across the country. The FAA’s Daily Air Traffic Report on Thursday noted that low clouds and thunderstorms near airports in Boston, Detroit, Chicago, Denver, Minneapolis, Seattle, and all of Florida could cause more problems nationwide.
Airports in the Boston and New York areas have been hit the hardest during the week, with nearly half of all flights delayed or canceled on Monday and Tuesday, which caused a ripple effect throughout the country.
“Airlines handle crew assignments differently—for instance, crew may scatter at hubs, so when a flight delays it’s not just subsequent flights using that aircraft that are affected (and a domestic plane might work five or six segments in a day) but also the crew from that aircraft that will work different flights,” Leff said. “The captain might be needed for one other flight, the copilot for a different one, and flight attendants for others still. In this way, delays from a single flight headed to a hub city can cascade.”
Some of the hardest hit hub airports include Chicago, Denver, and Houston. According to FlightAware’s MiseryMap, at least 25 percent of flights into or out of those airports were delayed or canceled between Monday and Wednesday.
This comes at a time when there are a record number
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