Travelers are returning to airports in record pre-pandemic numbers, with TSA screening 2,490,490 passengers at airport security checkpoints on Friday. But passengers continue to face delayed and canceled flights, data shows.
Sunday's cancellations followed Saturday's 5,893 delayed flights and 655 cancelled flights within, into or out of the U.S.., which included the busiest air travel day of the year prior to July 1 and saw more than 3,300 flight cancellations from Friday - Monday, and Memorial Day weekend, when about 2,700 flights were cancelled., which has led some airlines to preemptively cut thousands of flights for the summer season.
In an interview last month with the AP, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said he wanted to wait to see how air travel over the July Fourth weekend and the rest of the summer went before determining whether his department would take enforcement actions against airlines.about how passengers could claim refunds for cancelled flights, noting in a thread that his own connecting flight was cancelled Friday night and that he claimed a $112 refund.
"Airlines offer miles as compensation for some travel issues, and you can often negotiate on this. That’s between you and the airline," Buttiegieg."But you are entitled to cash refunds for canceled flights — that’s a requirement that we will continue to enforce." FlightAware spokeswoman Kathleen Bangs previously told NBC News that she expects the wave of cancellations to stabilize by the fall, as airlines
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