US Transport Secretary Pete Buttigieg has blamed thousands of flight delays and cancellations over the Fourth of July holiday weekend on the weather.
More than 1,322 flights were cancelled and 89,500 delayed this weekend, according to monitoring site, FlightAware. That’s on top of the 24,000 flights delayed and 5,600 cancelled between Monday and Wednesday. On Thursday, the busiest travel day, 770 flights were cancelled and 31,413 delayed.
