"By our count, nearly 8800 flights have been canceled
at major US airports between Friday, December 19th and Sunday
afternoon on December 28 seriously disrupting holiday travel for
over 1 million passengers. With capacity cuts and high estimated
load factors, travelers subject to cancellations have had an awful
time with 2-3 day waits for a seat on another flight
commonplace."
Source: Airline performance watchdog
FlightStats.com, which adds on the six busiest travel days in that
10-day holiday travel period, less than half of the scheduled
flights arrived on time. December 21 was the worst of those, with
only 39% of flights arriving with 15 minutes of their schedule.
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