As airlines recover from winter storms, there have been over 1,300 cancellations.
It was a better Saturday, with just over 1,300 U.S. cancellations, but that’s still a lot of folks out of place and upset. American Airlines is the hardest hit today with more than 845 canceled flights … that’s a whopping 30% of its schedule.
Most of that is attributable to the residual effect of bad weather that hit the Dallas-Fort Worth area, according to Henry Harteveldt, a travel industry analyst and president of Atmosphere Research, who said American was struggling
Envoy Air, the company's American subsidiary, also canceled a large number of flights on Saturday, nearly 14% of its total schedule.
Southwest had better news, as just 3% of their flights were canceled today.
On Friday, 439 flights were canceled, accounting for nearly 12% of the whole schedule.
The good news is that the big storms have passed through, and Sunday looks promising.
Only 63 flights have been canceled for tomorrow as of 4 p.m. on Saturday.
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