Furious United Airlines passengers slam firm for ruining their July 4 weekend as they’re forced to wait on the phone for SIX HOURS to rebook flights – while 13,000 other flights are delayed and 1,000 are canceled
Travelers at airports across the country faced misery this week as almost 30,000 flights were delayed, and 6,000 canceled
United was the worst affected airline: a quarter of all their flights, almost 700, were canceled and nearly half were delayed
Newark was the hardest-hit airport, with Chicago, LaGuardia, Houston and Denver also badly affected. The misery will continue for several days
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Flight chaos heats up ahead of expected record-breaking July 4th travel
Don’t count on those Fourth of July plans taking off.
Hundreds of thousands of passengers have continued to have flights delayed and even canceled this week — sparking chaos on what is expected to be the busiest July 4 travel weekend in history.
Since Monday, more than 24,000 US flights have been delayed — 8,850 on Monday alone — with more than 6,000 also canceled, according to FlightAware data…
https://nypost.com/2023/06/29/flight-chaos-ahead-of-expected-record-breaking-july-4-travel/
Update: The hits keep coming — more than 30,000 flights disrupted since Saturday
https://thepointsguy.com/news/major-northeast-travel-delays-cancellations/
This is a big chaos in #SFO . After about 10 hours delay , most of the flights in in SFO are cancelled . There are miles long line waiting to access the customer service desk for rebooking. And the United Airlines App cannot be accessed. It is a big mess here pic.twitter.com/S4OWNC3Hfy
— William Lin (@wlin1014) June 28, 2023
Yikes! Travel delays and cancellations. continue today. ✈️This morning about 19 percent of United Airlines’ flights were cancelled out of Newark pic.twitter.com/PcD2EOCICf
— Lissette Nuñez (@LissetteNunezTV) June 28, 2023
h/t ElleMira