U.S. Air Travel Shut Down

This is not good.

Over the Father’s day and Juneteenth weekend, it has been learned that thousands of flights were forced to be canceled or delayed.

According to Axios, an astonishing 19,000 flights were either canceled or delayed while on just Sunday alone 4,200 U.S. flights were delayed and 900 were canceled. These delays and cancelation were attributed to a number of problems including airline staffing shortages and bad weather.

The airports that were most affected by these delays and cancelations were New York City’s LaGuardia, John F. Kennedy International and Newark Liberty International airports, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport and Chicago O’Hare International Airport.

James Ferrara, co-founder and president of global host travel agency InteleTravel, explained, “We’re in a boom time for travel. We’re blowing away all records of all previous years. So you’ve got this surge in demand, and you’ve got limitations on staffing.”