{"id":1922188,"date":"2023-05-01T14:43:25","date_gmt":"2023-05-01T18:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gao-report-airlines-not-weather-to-blame-for-cancelled-flights-that-stranded-thousands\/"},"modified":"2023-05-01T14:47:06","modified_gmt":"2023-05-01T18:47:06","slug":"gao-report-airlines-not-weather-to-blame-for-cancelled-flights-that-stranded-thousands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gao-report-airlines-not-weather-to-blame-for-cancelled-flights-that-stranded-thousands\/","title":{"rendered":"GAO: Report: Airlines, Not Weather, to Blame for Cancelled Flights That Stranded Thousands"},"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\">26<\/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%2Fgao-report-airlines-not-weather-to-blame-for-cancelled-flights-that-stranded-thousands%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=1922188&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--><h2>Airlines, Not Weather, Responsible for Canceled Flights<\/h2>\n<p>Are you tired of being stranded at airports due to canceled flights? A new report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) reveals that airlines, not weather, are the leading cause of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/second-major-storm-in-one-week-blankets-northeast-in-snow\/\" title=\"Second major storm in one week blankets Northeast in snow\">flight cancellations<\/a>. The surge in cancellations post-pandemic is due to factors that airlines have control over, such as maintenance issues or lack of a crew.<\/p>\n<h3>What the Report Found<\/h3>\n<p>The GAO report, requested by Republican leaders of the House Transportation Committee, found that most of the increase in airline-caused cancellations has occurred at budget airlines. However, several of the largest airlines have also made more unnecessary errors. Flight cancellation rates in the last six months of 2021 dominated 2018 and 2019 rates despite 14 percent fewer scheduled flights. The percentage of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gao-report-airlines-not-weather-to-blame-for-cancelled-flights-that-stranded-thousands\/\" title=\"GAO: Report: Airlines, Not Weather, to Blame for Cancelled Flights That Stranded Thousands\">airline-caused cancellations began increasing<\/a> by early 2021.<\/p>\n<h3>Who&#8217;s to Blame?<\/h3>\n<p>Major airlines have clashed with Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg over the increased cancellations. Carriers have argued that the government is to blame for insufficient air traffic controllers, while Buttigieg points fingers at the airlines. Republicans have questioned whether the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) or Department of Transportation (DOT) under Buttigieg were helping to address these ongoing issues.<\/p>\n<h3>What the Airlines Are Doing<\/h3>\n<p>At the height of the pandemic, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/donald-trump-ends-negotiations-with-nancy-pelosi-on-coronavirus-relief\/\" title=\"Donald Trump Ends Negotiations with Nancy Pelosi on Coronavirus Relief\">airline companies<\/a> took $54 billion in taxpayer money to keep employees working through the unforeseen times. Still, they reduced workers anyway by paying them incentives to quit. Then, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/faa-wants-to-control-how-much-much-alcohol-flyers-drink-at-airports\/\" title=\"FAA Wants To Control How Much Much Alcohol Flyers Drink At Airports\">travel picked<\/a> up and the world returned to normal, the airlines struggled to replace thousands of workers who left. Southwest, Delta, American, United, Allegiant Air, Spirit, JetBlue, and Frontier Airlines were to blame for more than 60 percent of their total cancellations caused by issues those carriers could control. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Carriers have taken responsibility for challenges within their control and continue working diligently to improve operational reliability as demand for air travel rapidly returns,&#8221; said Hannah Walden, a spokeswoman for trade group Airlines for America. &#8220;This includes launching aggressive, successful hiring campaigns for positions across the industry and reducing schedules in response to the FAA&#8217;s staffing shortages.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>, crew scheduling, and other operational issues. This means that airlines are responsible for leaving countless travelers high and dry, with no way to reach their destinations. The report is a wake-up call for the industry to prioritize customer satisfaction and take responsibility for their actions. It&#8217;s time for airlines to step up and ensure that their passengers are treated with the respect and care they deserve. No more excuses, no more cancellations &#8211; it&#8217;s time for a change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1922189,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[6327,6442,11514,11127,15396,3819,9928,4286,3832],"class_list":["post-1922188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-airlines","tag-blame","tag-cancelled","tag-flights","tag-gao","tag-report","tag-stranded","tag-thousands","tag-weather"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1922188","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=1922188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1922188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1922189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1922188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1922188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1922188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}