Greater than 1,000 Flights Delayed Tuesday after Report-setting Memorial Day Weekend

Hundreds of thousands of vacationers took to the skies over the Memorial Day vacation weekend in record-setting numbers, however flight delays and cancellations rolled into Tuesday and created a submit vacation weekend hangover.

Greater than 1,100 flights had been delayed and greater than 200 had been canceled inside, into, or out of america by late Tuesday morning, in accordance with flight tracker FlightAware. Flight points continued to pile up all through the morning and got here after greater than 8,400 delayed flights and greater than 580 canceled flights on Monday.

In complete, greater than 20,000 flights had been delayed and greater than 860 had been canceled from Saturday by way of Monday.

The most important points had been discovered within the New York Metropolis space on Monday. LaGuardia Airport had probably the most disruptions, canceling 15 % of all outbound flights and delaying 40 %. That was adopted by Newark Liberty Worldwide Airport, which canceled 12 % of all outbound flights and delayed 34 %.

On Tuesday, Southwest Airways was probably the most affected, delaying 8 % of all flights.

The flight disruptions got here as file quantities of vacationers handed by way of airports throughout the U.S. over the vacation weekend. On Friday alone, greater than 2.95 million vacationers handed by way of Transportation Safety Administration screening lanes, a brand new file.

The earlier file was set on the Sunday after Thanksgiving on Nov. 26, 2023, and got here in at 2,908,785.

“TSA Officers have set a brand new file for many vacationers screened in a single day!” the TSA wrote in a submit on X. “We advocate arriving early.”

The unofficial begin of summer time is probably going a harbinger of what’s to come back, and it’s going to result in flight prices that equal and even surpass 2023. Costs are anticipated to peak now by way of early June.

However the excellent news is a few locations are anticipated to price (barely) lower than final summer time, together with nations in Europe.