How Better Airline Technology Could Minimize Flight Disruptions

Image: A person speaks on the phone near flight monitors at George Bush Intercontinental Airport in January 2022 in Houston, Texas. Image credit: Brandon Bell / Getty Images. Article by Teresa Carr. Undark – January 12, 2022.

The holidays didn’t go as planned for thousands of U.S. air travelers. Delays and cancellations started piling up Christmas Eve and trended steadily upward through the new year, according to data from the flight-tracking company FlightAware. From Dec. 24 to Jan. 3, airlines delayed more than 71,000 U.S. flights and flat-out cancelled more than 18,000. As of this writing, disruptions appear to have peaked on Jan. 3, with more than one-third of flights delayed and about 13 percent cancelled — though they remain higher than normal. […]

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