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  • 4/27/2025
The number of flights being canceled every year seems to continually be on the rise. Airlines and news headlines have often blamed the weather and no doubt that is at least partially true, but now the Government Accountability Office says differently. Veuer’s Tony Spitz has the details.

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00:00The number of flights being cancelled every year seems to continually be on the rise.
00:04Airlines and news headlines have often blamed the weather, and no doubt that is at least partially
00:08true. But now the Government Accountability Office says differently. According to their
00:12recent airline passenger protections, observations on flight delays and cancellations and DOT's
00:18efforts to address them report, flight cancellations in the last six months of 2021 outpaced 2018 and
00:242019, and they say those rates were higher even though there were 14% fewer scheduled flights.
00:29A large part of that, they say, is due to staffing issues, with some flights being grounded
00:34only hours before takeoff, sometimes due to simply having too few flight attendants.
00:38The report indicates these types of issues sent waves to the entire aviation industry,
00:43causing cancellations or delays with other flights after hundreds or thousands were left stranded.
00:48The report also indicates that the airlines are taking this seriously. Airlines have been
00:52hiring like crazy and have received the go-ahead from the Department of Transportation to reduce
00:56schedules. And that's particularly important as we head into the summer travel season.
01:00One experts say could see record-setting numbers of people traveling for vacations.

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