More than 800 flights were canceled Sunday, according to flight tracking website FlightAware, nearly 30 percent of the airline’s total scheduled departures. A day earlier, more than 540 flights were canceled.
affecting all economic sectors, said Richard Aboulafia, an aviation analyst at Teal Group, but he noted that the “difference with airlines however is that a record drop in demand has been followed by a record recovery.”“That’s a recipe for trouble,” Aboulafia said in an email to The Washington Post. “Hopefully, it will be resolved by the holidays, but I’m sure there will be more disruptions ahead.
“Management is failing at the most fundamental part of running an airline. Connecting crews to the airplane,” Dennis Tajer, spokesman for the Allied Pilots Association, said in an emailed statement, adding: “Mother nature generates a storm and then management fails to connect crews creating more storms days after.”
In the Saturday memo, Seymour said the airline planned to staff up in the coming months, with nearly 1,800 flight attendants returning from various leaves starting Monday and more returning Dec 1. The airline also said it plans to have more than 600 new flight attendant hires start by the end of December.
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