A surge of travelers and an ongoing flight staffing shortage led to thousands of flight cancellations and delays ahead of the 4th of July weekend. See potential bias and similarities in coverage from nytimes, axios and nypost: AirportChaos Travel
Hundreds of flights were delayed or canceled Friday amid airline staff shortages and protests, as the Fourth of July travel rush got underway.
There were already more than 1,870 flight delays and 270 cancellations — well above the daily average of 210 scrapped flights — domestically as of noon Friday, according to the airline tracking service FlightAware. More than 48 million people were expected to hit the road for the holiday weekend as airlines struggled to keep up with the soaring summer travel demand.