The holiday rush is underway — with nearly 48 million Americans hitting the roads or heading to airports for the Fourth of July weekend. Cancellations are stacking up once again though, as U.S. airlines struggle to serve their own customers.
TSA reports that more than 2 million people have passed through airport checkpoints on most days this month as flight traffic approaches pre-pandemic levels. But . Since Memorial Day, airlines have canceled more than 21,000 flights — double of last year's rate.
"The problem is they're trying to operate by responding to demand but they can't respond to demand that they don't have the staff to support it," CBS News senior travel adviser Peter Greenberg said., saying it expects"operational challenges" over the weekend. Farokh Karani told CBS News transportation correspondent Errol Barnett that the potential airport chaos is just too much.
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