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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Business
Edward Helmore

Holiday travel adds pressure to stressed industry as more US flights canceled

A woman with sunglasses perched atop her head and pulling a suitcase is seen blurred at right as she rushes through a terminal filled with travelers.
A traveler rushes through the terminal at JFK airport in New York. Flight cancellations hit Delta hardest, with 6% of its total flights called off on Sunday and 200 early Monday. Photograph: Spencer Platt/Getty Images

The confluence of two holidays, Father’s Day and Juneteenth, and a season of “revenge travel” continued to heap pressure on the already stretched airline industry as 4,200 additional US flights were delayed and 900 canceled on Sunday, pushing the total number of flights interrupted since Thursday to 19,000.

Delta was hit hardest, with 6% of its total flights on Sunday cancelled. A further 200 flights were cancelled early on Monday.

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