Mass flight cancellations continue in the U.S.

• Sunday saw 868 cancellations of flights to, from, or within the United States.
• It is the fifth day in a row that at least 500 commercial flights have been lost.
• Most impacted passengers were those who had flights scheduled for Sunday on Delta Air Lines.

Sunday saw the cancellation of more than 800 flights across America, making it the fifth day in a row that at least 500 commercial flights have been lost, according to airline tracking data.

According to the Houston-based FlightAware, there were 868 cancellations of flights to, from, or within the United States on Sunday, or 3% of all planned flights.

The statistics showed that Saturday (633 cancellations), Friday (709), Thursday (878), and Wednesday (1,403) were all recent difficult travel days that were followed by Sunday.

The chaos at the airports over the weekend was actually a modest improvement from the previous week, which had 1,480 cancellations on June 17, 864 on June 18, and 913 on June 19.

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The most impacted passengers were those who had flights scheduled for Sunday on Delta Air Lines (234 cancellations, or 8% of those scheduled), United Airlines (82 and 4%), Republic Airways (85 and 9%), Allegiant Air (25 and 5%), Cape Air (55 and 19%), and Jazz Aviation (79 and 31 percent ).

A number of “compounding variables influencing our operation,” such as “higher-than-planned unscheduled absences in certain of our work groups, weather, and air traffic control difficulties,” were cited by Delta as the cause of its cancellations.

The Atlanta-based airline said: “Canceling a flight is always our last resort, and we sincerely apologise to our customers for any interruption to their travel arrangements.”

United said that schedule modifications announced last week out of Newark, New Jersey, distort their cancellation statistics.

Additionally, Allegiant said in a statement released Monday night that a “schedule alteration to 14 flights that were initially scheduled to operate” Sunday had distorted their data in the FlightAware database.

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