{"id":1537804,"date":"2022-07-04T06:20:08","date_gmt":"2022-07-04T10:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1537804"},"modified":"2022-07-04T06:20:16","modified_gmt":"2022-07-04T10:20:16","slug":"buttigieg-responds-after-hundreds-of-flight-cancelations-reported-over-july-4-weekend-fixes-nothing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/buttigieg-responds-after-hundreds-of-flight-cancelations-reported-over-july-4-weekend-fixes-nothing\/","title":{"rendered":"Buttigieg Responds After Hundreds of Flight Cancelations Reported Over July 4 Weekend, Fixes Nothing"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbuttigieg-responds-after-hundreds-of-flight-cancelations-reported-over-july-4-weekend-fixes-nothing%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1537804&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg informed travelers about how to get refunds amid hundreds of cancellations and thousands of delays in flights across the United States ahead of July 4.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/flightaware.com\/live\/cancelled\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">airline tracking service\u00a0FlightAware.com<\/a>, as of Saturday, over 5,800 flights were delayed in the United States, including those in and out of the country. There were also at least 655 canceled flights, which is more than three times the average of about 210 canceled flights daily. As of Sunday morning, the tracking service said 211 flights were canceled and more than 938 delays were reported nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFlight canceled? You are entitled to a prompt refund. Learn more about your rights at our Consumer Protection site,\u201d Buttigieg wrote on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SecretaryPete\/status\/1543200092416626690\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0with a link to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.transportation.gov\/individuals\/aviation-consumer-protection\/refunds\">Department of Transportation\u2019s website<\/a> on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Transportation Department website, with the exception of non-refundable tickets, customers are entitled to a refund from airlines when a flight is canceled or delayed, or when bags are lost. They are also entitled to some refund if they were involuntarily moved to a lower class of service.<\/p>\n<p>In the case of delayed flights, refunds only apply when the delay or schedule change is \u201csignificant,\u201d which is something the transportation department determines on a case-by-case basis.<\/p>\n<p>Customers can get a refund from airlines if they booked directly with them. Those who booked with third-party companies would need to obtain their refund via the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-travel-2\">travel<\/a> agent.<\/p>\n<p>Some 2.49 million travelers went through security checkpoints at U.S. airports on Friday, which is even higher than the 2.46 million travelers earlier in the week, according to data released by the Transportation Security Administration on Saturday. The passenger volume on Friday was a 13 percent increase from July 1 in 2021, which was the Thursday before the July 4 holiday.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4573948\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2022\/07\/03\/flights-canceled-delayed-1200x800.jpeg\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4573948\" src=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2022\/07\/03\/flights-canceled-delayed-600x400.jpeg\" alt=\"Delays And Cancellations\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/noscript><\/figcaption><\/a> Travelers wait at Newark Liberty International Airport in Newark, New Jersey, on July 1, 2022. (Jeenah Moon\/Getty Images)<\/figure>\n<h2>Industry Challenges<\/h2>\n<p>Airlines continue to struggle to keep up with the high travel demand amid staffing shortages, high fuel costs, and other factors such as the weather, which on Saturday included\u00a0thunderstorms on the East Coast and parts of the Midwest.<\/p>\n<p>Separately, more than 12,000 American Airlines flights in July were lacking a captain, first officer, or both, after a glitch in the company\u2019s platform for scheduling flights allowed pilots to drop assignments, CNBC <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2022\/07\/02\/american-airlines-scheduling-glitch-allows-pilots-to-drop-thousands-of-july-trips.html\">reported<\/a> on Saturday, citing the airline\u2019s pilot\u2019s union.<\/p>\n<p>The airline\u00a0said in a statement that the technical glitch meant that certain flights were swapped when they shouldn\u2019t have been allowed to be.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe already have restored the vast majority of the affected trips and do not anticipate any operational impact because of this issue,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Associated Press and Jack Phillips contributed to this report.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"author_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"one_author_block round\">\n<div class=\"top_row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/author-mimi-nguyen-ly\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/WEB_MimiNguyen_1.jpg\" alt=\"Mimi Nguyen Ly\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Mimi Nguyen Ly is a reporter based in Australia. She covers world news with a focus on U.S. news. Contact her at mimi.nl@epochtimes.com<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg informed travelers about how to get refunds amid hundreds of cancellations and thousands of delays in flights across the United States ahead of July 4.According to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1537804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1537804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1537804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1537804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1537804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1537804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1537804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}